[Dawn] A group of about two dozen former ministers and dissidents belonging to the country's major political parties, mostly from the Pakistain Mohammedan League-Q, are negotiating terms with cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan... aka
Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
for formally joining his Pakistain Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) or to have an electoral alliance with it, Dawn has learnt.
"Yes, we have been in touch with Imran Khan and the people in his party for almost six months and discussing the plan and the nature of cooperation with them to work together to achieve common objectives," said Ishaq Khan Khakwani, a former minister in the military-led regime of Gen Pervez
PervMusharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
Talking to Dawn here on Sunday, Mr Khakwani claimed that his group, led by former minister Jahangir Khan Tareen, had made headway in the talks with the PTI, but made it clear that the group was not going to join the PTI and negotiations were being held only on the nature of cooperation between them.
Mr Khakwani said the group came into existence when the PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain decided to join hands with the PPP.
"We dissociated ourselves from the Chaudhrys after their decision to join the PPP and decided to go on our own to provide a new platform to the people of Pakistain to give them a hope," he said.