Govt in contact with different opposition parties: Khattak.

PESHAWAR -- Federal Minister for Defence and Chairman Negotiation Committee, Pervez Khattak has said that members of the panel are in contract with opposition parties including PML-N, PPP, JUI-F, ANP and maximum progress is made.

Addressing a Sui gas pipeline inauguration ceremony in district Nowshera, he said that on behalf of Maulana Fazalur Rehman, Senator Ghafoor Haideri has invited the committee for talks.

PTI MNA Idrees Khattak, Ishaq Khan Khattak, Ismail Khan Khattak, Atif Khan Khattak, Syed Faridullah Shah, Riaz Ali Khan and Mian Faisal Shah also addressed the ceremony.

The Chairman of the PTI negotiation team said that the representatives of both sides will sit together to reach on conclusion. However, he said that Maulana Fazalur Rehman has decided that Rehbar Committee of the opposition parties is going to sit tomorrow or day after tomorrow to sit with us and hold negotiations.

The federal minister said that he is hopeful that the Rehbar Committee will decide in favour of holding negotiations to find out some positive solution and take the country towards improvement. In the current circumstances, he said Pakistan is passing through critical situation and instead of staging sit-ins and protest, the opposition should also focus on situation in Occupied Kashmir. However, he said that if the agenda of opposition is the resignation of Prime Minister Imran Khan and holding of fresh elections, then he ruled out negotiations.

He said that in case of any attempt to harm the country in the pretext of sit-in, then Maulana Fazalur Rehman and opposition parties would be responsible wholly and...