In response to the negotiation committee of Tehreek-e-Insaf, the Prime Minister of Pakistan Mian Shahbaz Sharif also formed a government negotiation committee. Representatives of all the parties involved in the government coalition were included in the government committee.
Now the negotiations have started from both sides. On the other hand, the call for civil disobedience given by the founder Tehreek-e-Insaaf has also started. The founder Tehreek-e-Insaf had given a deadline of Sunday. This civil disobedience was supposed to start automatically after Sunday. So when the call is given, civil disobedience has started. It is true that the call has so far asked overseas Pakistanis not to send foreign exchange into the country. In this way, a negotiation committee of the government has also been formed on one side and civil disobedience has also started on the other side.
Political analysts supporting Tehreek-e-Insaaf are saying that the government has gone too far by including representatives of all political parties of the alliance in its committee. In this way, nothing will be settled.
It is very difficult to convince all the political parties on one thing. The government should have formed a short committee consisting of representatives of PML-N only so that the matter could be settled. Now it is very difficult to decide anything. If there is one thing PML-N will accept then MQM will not accept it. If MQM will agree, IPP will not agree. In this way, it will be very difficult for Tehreek-e-Insaaf to convince everyone.
On the other hand, the position of PML-N is that why should we take all responsibility for these negotiations? It is a coalition government, so whatever is decided will be decided by all the allies. The position of PML-N is that if we had agreed to something and later the rest of the alliance did not agree, then what would we have done? Therefore, the government committee is more powerful. Everyone is there.
What will be decided will be with everyone. Anyway, Tehreek-e-Insaaf was not in favor of negotiating with PML-N alone, it wants to negotiate with the government. Therefore, everyone is included in the government. If she only wants to hold political talks with PML-N, then those talks will be between two political parties. Will not be with the government. PML-N is not the only government.
If even one ally gets angry because of these talks, the PML-N government will be in danger. Therefore, why should PML-N put his government in danger to negotiate with PTI? Therefore, in my opinion, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has taken the best decision with a correct and political wisdom.
As far as it is concerned that it is difficult to decide anything from the committee comprising the representatives of all the allied political parties, it was also difficult to agree on anything with the PML-N. It just happened that yesterday when Tehreek-e-Insaaf had to make a statement that PML-N did not listen to us, the rest of the government allies had to watch the spectacle. Now when they are sitting together, they will also take responsibility. No one can say that the PML-N was ready to accept everything, but others did not. Rather, it can be said that when everyone else agrees, it will be compulsory for the PML-N to agree.
I have been saying since the first day that negotiations between Tehreek-e-Insaf and the government cannot succeed. The government does not have the power and authority to accept even one of the demands made by Tehreek-e-Insaf. Therefore, their chances of success are not low but impossible. The government could have rejected these demands altogether. To some extent, the demands of Tehreek-e-Insaaf have also been rejected. You may say what was the need to form a committee when rejections have been made. I think the government has given a political response to the political trick of Tehreek-e-Insaf. The committee that has been formed is an example of rejecting the demands.
Now the question is whether Tehreek-e-Insaf should negotiate with this committee of the government alone or Tehreek-e-Insaf should also include the rest of the opposition political parties? Shouldn’t Tehreek-e-Insaf give a new shape to its committee? Maulana’s people should not be included in this. Mengal’s people and Mehmood Khan Achakzai should not be included. In this way, a new form of these negotiations will emerge.
It will become a negotiation between the government and the opposition. In which the country’s politics and other matters can be openly discussed. All political parties will be able to use this committee for a broader national consensus. Till now Tehreek-e-Insaf only wants to negotiate with itself. She does not want to include all the opposition parties in the negotiations. She wants all opposition political parties to join her protest movement. But she does not want to include them in the negotiations.
Now will these negotiations be successful? I have written before that the conditions and demands that Tehreek-e-Insaf has put forward are difficult to succeed. They say that these people should be released. Tell me what authority the government has to release? What power does the government have to dispose of cases? One such option was used by former President Musharraf. When he closed all the cases of PPP, especially Ms. Benazir Bhutto, through an ordinance called NRO. But the courts of Pakistan not only lifted this ordinance and threw it in the trash, but also restored the cases. And abused the NRO. Now, with what authority should the government end the cases of Tehreek-e-Insaf people?
And release them. According to the constitution and laws of Pakistan, the government has the power to initiate a case but not to terminate it. Only the court can terminate the case. The court has the power to convict or acquit. As far as release is concerned, the government has the power to arrest. Not to leave. The court then has the power to leave. She can leave on bail. The government has no power to take bail. It is being said that PTI has made a list of all its prisoners. But what will the government do? She will say go to court, get bail from there. Get your cases over with. What can we do?
Similarly, as far as the judicial commission is concerned. Suppose if the government writes a letter to the Judiciary for a judicial commission, asking you to form a commission and the response of the judiciary will be that the cases on which you are asking to form a commission are now in the court. You go to court. I don’t think a judicial commission of inquiry can be formed on the pending cases.
Once the challans of the cases are deposited in the court, they are not allowed to be re-investigated. Even the government cannot re-investigate. You can form a commission of inquiry before the challan is submitted, not now. So legally this is also not possible. The rest of the motivations are in place. They are also a big obstacle. I am speaking legally. Tehreek-e-Insaf should think that the demands are at least within the scope of the law.
