National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq called a meeting of the government and opposition negotiating committees on January 2.
An announcement has been made confirming the second round of negotiations to take place at 11:30 am.
According to the announcement, the meeting will be held in the Constitutional Room of the Parliament.
NA spokesperson Ayaz Sadiq will preside over the meeting.
The first meeting between the government and opposition negotiating committees, chaired by National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, lasted for about two hours and ended positively as both sides promised to continue talks.
Both sides expressed goodwill and called the meeting a significant “step forward”.
The government committee included Ishaq Dar, Irfan Siddiqui and Rana Sanaullah while Abdul Aleem Khan, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Naveed Qamar and Dr. Farooq Sattar were also part of the discussions. PTI representatives, Asad Qaiser, Raja Ansar Abbas and Hamid Raza attended. Asad Qaiser explained that other PTI members could not attend due to litigation abroad.
Both committees emphasized the importance of Parliament as a critical forum for solving domestic problems and expressed optimism that the negotiation process would continue.
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