PTI terms access to Imran 'principal point of deadlock', claims Centre refused to include it in agreement

The PTI on Sunday asserted that the main reason for the breakdown of its talks with the Centre was that the latter refused to incorporate terms regarding access to incarcerated party founder Imran Khan into a proposed agreement. Hours-long negotiations yesterday between an opposition delegation comprising the PTI and Tehreek-i-Tahafuz-i-Ayin-i-Pakistan (TTAP), and a joint team of the government and PPP, ended in a deadlock. While the federal government blamed the PTI for the failure of negotiations, the main opposition party denied the allegations and claimed that the federal government was…