Former interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed Tuesday said that backdoor talks have always failed, a day after PTI Chairman Imran Khan conceded that backchannel is open.
Taking to Twitter, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said, “backdoor talks have always failed” without sharing further details in this regard or referring to Imran Khan’s comments he made while speaking at a press conference in Islamabad.
Replying to a question, the PTI chairman said talks were taking place, and, at the same time, not. The reason for that was that Nawaz Sharif wanted the election to be delayed; Nawaz and Zardari were doing politics of the 1990s, but their time was over now, he added.
“PDM has run away from elections after the by-polls results. The difficulty with which Nawaz Sharif got out of the country, he will not come back that easily,” he tweeted and slammed the Shahbaz Sharif government for expanding the cabinet and not solving the circular-debt issue.
In an indirect reference to an important appointment in November, the Awami Muslim League chief said the months of October and November are decisive.
The statement from the former premier who has blamed the establishment for his ouster from the PM Office through a no-confidence motion triggered a new debate in political circles.
