PTI govt must be ousted as condition for talks with establishment: Maryam

ISLAMABAD: PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz said that her party might consider holding holding talks with security establishment if the PTI government was ousted from power.

Maryam Nawaz made the comments while speaking to BBC Urdu on Thursday.

She revealed that members of the security establishment had reached out to people around her but she admitted that nobody had directly approached her.

To a question, the daughter of former three-time premier said said that the possibility of using PDM’s platform for dialogue with could be considered but only after the selected government had been sent home”.

“The army is our institution. We will definitely talk but within the domains of the Constitution. Talks will be held within the limits prescribed by the Constitution and it will be in front of the public, not in secret.”

“I am not against the institution but if we are to move forward, the selected government will have to go”.

The PML-N vice president said she was ready to talk to “all stakeholders”. However, when asked whether she would talk to the incumbent government of Prime Minister Imran Khan, Maryam said that “the dialogue will be held with the people of Pakistan. It is being held with the people of Pakistan and it is going so well that the forces and the fake government are worried.”