By Aamir Latif
ISLAMABAD
Stop-start negotiations between the Pakistan government and the opposition were restored on Tuesday night as a seven-member parliamentary committee met the opposition’s two leaders.
Siraj ul Haq, the chief of Jamat-e-Islami, the country's largest Islamic party, held separate meetings with cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan and preacher Dr Tahir ul Qadri in a bid to persuade them to end their supporters’ three-week sit-in that has crippled the capital Islamabad.
The two leaders are pressing Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to step down over electoral fraud allegations.
“We have got positive indications from meetings with the two leaders,” committee member Rehman Malik said after the first round of meetings. “The nation will soon hear good news.”
Three protesters have been killed and over 500 injured, including 100 policemen, in fierce clashes between the two sides since Saturday.
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