LAHORE: In connection with the one-point agenda of holding simultaneous elections, the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) proposed on Sunday to hold the All Parties Conference (APC) after Eidul Fitr.
Sources privy to the development said for the sake of a big development in the country’s political scenario, the APC will be spearheaded by the JI. The contacts had been started in a bid to invite Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan to the conference.
The JI believed that holding split-up polls was not in the interest of the country. So, therefore, the government and the opposition should agree on the date for simultaneous elections. In terms of holding “elections in one go”, the JI will convince the government to hold the elections before October, and to the PTI after May. The JI leadership will negotiate with the PTI and the PML-N’s nominated members ahead of the APC.
The PML-N asked Khawaja Saad Rafique and Sardar Ayaz Sadiq to move forward with the negotiations with the JI in a bid to settle the matter of elections.
Earlier today, the PTI constituted a three-member committee to hold dialogue on the ongoing political crisis in the country.
