DUBAI — Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Group (PML-N) leader, Nawaz Sharif, is to meet Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman, Asif Zardari, here today as a last ditch effort to resolve the differences between the two coalition partners on the modalities of restoring the judges in Pakistan.
Nawaz was scheduled to arrive in Dubai late last night. His visit has raised hopes that deadlock in the talks would be removed.
Earlier on Monday, the leaders of PPP and PML-N concluded their first round of talks on the restoration of judges in Pakistan.
The meeting, which lasted for more than 3 hours, was held at the residence of Asif Zardari, Co-Chairman of PPP, in Dubai. Later, the participants had dinner at the Grosvenor House hotel where the talks are understood to have continued, but remained inconclusive.
Sources said that during the talks the PPP side was led by Zardari and attended by Rahman Malik, Advisor on Interior Affairs, and Farooq Naek, Federal Law Minister.
The PML-N side was led by its President Shehbaz Sharif, along with Khawaja Asif, Federal Petroleum Minister, Choudhary Nisar Ali Khan, Senior Federal Minister, and Khawaja Haris, Advocate-General of Punjab.
Shehbaz told reporters that he had come to Dubai with a ‘one-point agenda’ to discuss the restoration of the judges by April 30 with Zardari,” adding that the PML-N was hopeful of the outcome.
Nawaz was scheduled to arrive in Dubai late last night. His visit has raised hopes that deadlock in the talks would be removed.
Earlier on Monday, the leaders of PPP and PML-N concluded their first round of talks on the restoration of judges in Pakistan.
The meeting, which lasted for more than 3 hours, was held at the residence of Asif Zardari, Co-Chairman of PPP, in Dubai. Later, the participants had dinner at the Grosvenor House hotel where the talks are understood to have continued, but remained inconclusive.
Sources said that during the talks the PPP side was led by Zardari and attended by Rahman Malik, Advisor on Interior Affairs, and Farooq Naek, Federal Law Minister.
The PML-N side was led by its President Shehbaz Sharif, along with Khawaja Asif, Federal Petroleum Minister, Choudhary Nisar Ali Khan, Senior Federal Minister, and Khawaja Haris, Advocate-General of Punjab.
Shehbaz told reporters that he had come to Dubai with a ‘one-point agenda’ to discuss the restoration of the judges by April 30 with Zardari,” adding that the PML-N was hopeful of the outcome.
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