PTI finalises team for talks with JUI-F.

Byline: Imran Mukhtar

ISLAMABAD -- The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Friday finalized its seven member committee to negotiate with the JUI-F and other opposition parties to convince them to postpone their planned anti-government long march on Islamabad.

Defence Minister Perevez Khattak, the head of the committee, finalized the names that include Chairman Senate Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani and Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser.

The other members are Speaker Punjab Assembly and Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, Religious Affairs Minister Noorul Haq Qadri, Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood, and former finance minister Asad Umar.

The defence minister in a statement said that country could not afford any political chaos at this time and the committee would resolve the matter peacefully through negotiations .

On Wednesday, the Core Committee of PTI under the chair of Prime Minister Imran Khan had decided to form the committee to hold talks with the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazalur Rehman on his 'political demands.' Maulana, the...