Top Story January 7, 2021 ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan and his junior coalition partner, the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F), are not on the same wavelength on the question of national dialogue. The PML-F’s narrative regarding ‘Track-II dialogue’ is currently being propounded by its secretary-general Muhammad Ali Durrani. He says he has been tasked by his party boss to undertake the process, a claim that is widely viewed with a grain of salt; party head Pir Pagara himself is yet to publicly own the initiative and hasn’t uttered a word about it so far. While Durrani is on the move pursuing his ‘assignment’, the prime minister continues to stick to his hard line. Imran Khan and his cabinet members have offered dialogue to the opposition but they have not specified any agenda for future talks and insisted that the talks cannot be about the accountability process and relief to opposition leaders. In fact, they have been bringing up the invitation for talks as if it were a favour to their rivals. While agreeing to talk to the opposition, the prime minister simultaneously keeps directing his spokespersons to take on their rivals in an extremely attacking tone.