ISLAMABAD: Negotiators representing the government and the Pakistan Tehreelei-Insaf (PTI) could not meet on Tuesday and had to postpone the meeting for second consecutive day because of former`s pre-occupation with the national counter-terrorism plan.

According to an office-bearer of the PTI, the party leadership was informed that due to unavailability of Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, the head of the government`s negotiation team, the huddle will be held on Wednesday (today).

After their last meeting on Friday, the government and the PTI had resolved to reach an agreement during the current week to resolve the lingering crisis over the setting up of a judicial commission to investigate alleged rigging of last year`s general elections.

`So far it seems that the two sides are moving ahead and will be able to find some common ground,` the PTI leader told Dawn.

`The party has already backed off from its condition of the prime minister`s resignation for holding talks with the government. Now that it has called off of its four-month-long Islamabad sit-in after the Peshawar tragedy, it seems that the government is willing to get a `purposeful` probe conducted,` he said.

`But, the sticking issue of the definition of rigging is yet to be resolved.` For the PTI, rigging means engineering of poll results but the government insists that if rigging in a certain constituency is proved, it should not be construed as an indication of broad-based mismanagement of the elections.