ISLAMABAD, Jan 20: PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja said that the party would abandon talks with the government by January 28 unless they were allowed to meet with incarcerated party founder Imran Khan.
Since Imran's incarceration last year in several cases, PTI's relations with the government and the establishment have deteriorated sharply, marked by protests that frequently escalated into violence amid state repression.
Talks between the government and the PTI commenced in the last week of December to bring down political temperatures, but despite weeks of negotiations, the dialogue process has hardly moved forward on major issues - the formation of a judicial commission and the release of PTI prisoners.
The third meeting kicked off on January 16 under the NA speaker's oversight and was attended by six people, including three PTI leaders, from the opposition, while eight represented the government. �DAWN
