PTI manages to win over PML-Q after rounds of talks come to an end.

ISLAMABAD -- Another mission to appease a coalition partner by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) ended up successful after a delegation of the ruling party managed to convince a 'cross' Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-e-Azam (PML-Q) in the final round of talks held on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Imran Khan had formed a committee of his party's leaders, headed by Defence Minister Pervez Khan Khattak, to meet 'annoyed' government allies - MQM-P, PML-Q and Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) - to address their concerns.

The PTI delegation, which also included senior PTI leader Sardar Jehangir Khan Tareen, Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Ahmed Khan Buzdar and Arbab Muhammad Shahzad met a delegation of the PML-Q, which included Federal Minister for Housing and Works Chaudhry Tariq Basheer Cheema, MNAs Chaudhry Moonis Elahi, Chaudhry Salik Hussain and Chaudhry Hussain Elahi in Islamabad on Wednesday.

Speaking to the media after the meeting, Cheema thanked Khattak and Tareen for "understanding our pain". "Difference of opinion occurs when you live in the same house," Cheema said, when asked if the PML-Q was still cross with the ruling party. He said that PML-Q had some "demands" and expressed the hope that they will be fulfilled soon. When asked what the demands were, Cheema said they were related to...

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