Latif Khosa says no dialogue at gun point

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Partys (PPP) senior leader and former governor Punjab  Sardar Latif Khan Khosa on Sunday said dialogue cannot be held at gunpoint, Imran Khan should have agreed to dialogue without any conditions.

Talking to a private TV channel, he stressed all political issues must be resolved with political wisdom, asking the former prime minister to become a part of the parliament keeping all “irrelevant” issues aside.  At present, Pakistan was dealing with more serious issues than staging the new elections.

The current economic situation and the resettling of flood victims were the pressing challenges, he added.   If Imran Khan dissolves the provincial assemblies, PDM would contest the elections, he determined.

Earlier, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Sunday said that he did not see the need to hold early elections in the country as was being demanded by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan.

The foreign minister, in an interview with Al-Jazeera, said that the current government inherited from its predecessor a divided country and a collapsed economy.

However, he said the incumbent government was looking for solutions to internal problems and consensus at the international level.  Bilawal Bhutto said that the former prime minister is trying to participate in a new political formula.

To a question, he stressed the need to reach a solution to the Kashmir issue, and said, people in Pakistan and India want to live in peace.