'"I don’t understand why PTI has failed to unite the opposition. If the opposition unites, then..' Fawad Chaudhry

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00:00We can see that the negotiations are being held at the level of the Negotiating Committee.

00:05Some other contacts have also been claimed, including Mr. Khan's wife, Mr. Ali bin Ghandapur.

00:10For example, Mr. Ali bin Ghandapur brought the offer of house arrest.

00:13Are those contacts more effective or are the actual negotiations being held there?

00:19One thing is that the actual contacts will obviously be at the back end.

00:24The actual negotiations are being held at the level of the back end.

00:31You must remember that the government, like Mr. Tirpan Siddiqui,

00:34used to say that we are a small party, we can't even sit down.

00:43Mariam Nawaz, etc.

00:45But if these people have agreed and the PTI has also agreed,

00:48then it is obvious that there has been a conversation at the back end.

00:54But it is obvious that no one will believe the conversation at the back end on camera,

00:58nor will the person telling it.

01:00But definitely, I think that the conversation at the back end is more important.

01:05And for that too, the PTI has to create pressure.

01:10I don't understand why the PTI opposition is failing to gather.

01:17And it is obvious that there are very small reasons for that.

01:19I think they should be overcome.

01:21And today, Mehmood Achadzai, Malana Fazlur Rahman, Hafiz Naeem,

01:24if these people were negotiating with the government along with the PTI committee,

01:29then you can imagine that the situation would have been completely different.

01:33And unfortunately, the failure of their political strategy is in front of everyone.

01:39And how many percent of the success of this negotiation process,

01:43where the government and the negotiating committee are present,

01:46do you see as a possibility?

01:50Look, in my opinion, the success of the government and the opposition's negotiations,

01:58depends a lot on the international reaction from 20th January to 1st March.

02:08If that pressure increases, then the present government of Pakistan is not in any position

02:13to take the international pressure.

02:17And if they talk, they will have to come.

02:20There is always a reality in the past that sometimes we didn't win.

02:25But at the moment, our IMF is in February.

02:28Our review is due in February.

02:30If they delay it, then all your things will be alert.

02:34So you are not in a position to take them.

02:38I think it heavily depends on how the international pressure is created.

02:42Because the local politics, I think the PTI has left it all to Allah.

02:47It will be as it is.

02:53Thank you very much, Mr. Fawad Chaudhary.