Senior PML-N leader Rana Sanaullah on Saturday said that if the supremos of PTI, PML-N and PPP sat together for negotiations, the crises that the country has been embroiled in for 70 years would be solved within 70 days.
Addressing a ceremony in Lahore, the PML-N leader said that if Nawaz Sharif, Imran Khan and President Asif Ali Zardari were included in the negotiation committee, and they have “similar vision to what Nawaz had on his return last year”, then the “crises that has surrounded Pakistan for 70 years can end in 70 days”.
“Nawaz Sharif’s name should be there […] Imran Khan’s name should be there and Asif Ali Zaradari’s name should be there,” he said.
“We, the politicians, should sit together. The problem is that before we sit down, it is very important that the mistakes that were made by the people who are sitting down are accepted.”
He said that two documents — the 1973 Constitution and the charter of democracy — were important political documents.
In the charter of democracy, both Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif had accepted their mistakes and then the conversation moved forward, Sanaullah said.
He said that the PTI claims that its mandate was stolen and it should be returned. “Only yesterday, you (PTI) had [the mandate]. Why did you not speak then?” the PML-N leader said.
“We do want to make them [negotiations] successful with complete sincerity,” Sanaullah said, adding that if “today’s grievances are to be accepted then yesterday’s should also be accepted”.
Sanaullah said that his party had always called for negotiations to solve the political problems, citing former premier Nawaz Sharif’s October 21 speech last year.
He said that negotiations were the only way to move forward and solve the issues.
