Top PTI leaders to visit MQM-P headquarters tomorrow.

KARACHI -- Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leaders Jahangir Tareen and Pervez Khattak will visit MuttahidaQaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) headquarters in Karachi aimed at appeasing the key coalition partner of the federal government.

According to sources, the government has intensified its efforts to end differences with the key coalition partner, that enjoys the support of seven National Assembly lawmakers and whose convener Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui has resigned from the federal ministerial post on January 12.

The two stalwarts of the PTI would visit the MQM-P headquarters and will try to convince Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui to rejoin the federal cabinet.

The sources quoting PTI leaders said all just demands of the MQM-P will be accepted during the meeting.

Earlier on January 13, a delegation led by Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms Asad Umar held a meeting with MQM-P leaders at the party's temporary headquarters in Bahadurabad to assuage their reservations.

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