Islamabad (HRNW) The federal government has decided to hold talks with the proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) after its activists launched a “long march” on Islamabad from Lahore and clashed with the police.
The talks would be held in two stages, and help from the ulema would be enlisted in the second stage, a meeting presided over by Federal Interior Minister Shaikh Rasheed Ahmed decided.
On Saturday afternoon, the federal government’s negotiation team, comprising Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed, Minister for Religious Affairs Noorul Haq Qadri, and Minister for Kashmir Affairs Ali Amin Gandapur, arrived in Lahore with the aim to open talks with the protesting Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan.
The members of the negotiation team and senior officials including Punjab’s Chief Secretary, Inspector General, Additional Secretary Home, and Lahore’s Commissioner attended the meeting at the office of the Punjab Safe Cities Authorities.
Other members of the banned outfit’s shura, or high council, could also be called to the jail for the negotiations, they said.
In the second stage, ulema’s help would be enlisted to advance the talks, according to the sources.
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