Third round of govt-PTI talks set for Thursday

The third round of talks between the government and the PTI to bring down political temperatures will take place on January 16 (Thursday).

A notice issued today from the National Assembly (NA) Secretariat said NA Speaker Ayaz Sadiq would preside over the session at 11:30am in Parliament House.

Since PTI founder Imran Khan’s incarceration last year in several cases, PTI’s relations with the government and the establishment have deteriorated sharply, marked by protests that frequently...