Government has not contacted us for negotiations: Shah Mahmood

Islamabad: PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that the government has not contacted us for negotiations.

Shah Mehmood Qureshi came to the rostrum during the hearing of the case of holding the elections simultaneously in the Supreme Court and said that the court had given an opportunity for political consensus on the insistence of the government, the political leadership of all the parties had appeared in the court.

He said that the decision of the Supreme Court on May 14 is final, and the court order was taken seriously by the PTI, but even today there is no consensus on the negotiations in the PDM, the government is trying to deviate from the constitution, the government said. They said they would suggest after consultation but no suggestion came here.

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Shah Mehmood said that PTI had nominated me, Fawad Chaudhry, and Ali Zafar, for talks but we were not contacted.

He further said that he told the Chairman of the Senate over the phone yesterday that he was contacting the Prime Minister at the insistence of the Prime Minister.