Ghani says PPP wants JI to work with them
\n KARACHI
\nWith the members of the PTI expected to step down from their positions in Sindh, the leadership of PPP and PML-N Sindh has announced that the two parties will work as an ally in all the by-elections and general elections in Sindh.
\nThe PML-N leadership has assured its full support to the PPP in the contest of mayorship.
\nPPP provincial minister and Karachi Division President Saeed Ghani has also expressed his desire to work with Jamat e Islami (JI), saying it was the second leading party in the recent local bodies\u2019 elections in Karachi.
\n\u201cWe have already said that we want Jamaat-e-Islami to go along with us because we believe that just as the people of Karachi gave us a \u2018heavy mandate\u2019, they had also given a mandate to JI.\u201d
\nPPP has won 96 seats, JI 82 and PTI secured 43 seats thus far, he said, adding that \u201csimilarly the people of Karachi had given eight seats to PML-N and two to the JUI\u201d.
\nHe expressed these views while talking to media after meeting the PML-N leaders at the residence of PML-N Sindh President Shah Mohammad Shah.
\nThe PPP delegation was led by Ghani along with party\u2019s Sindh General Secretary Senator Waqar Mehdi and Najmi Alam. PML-N Sindh Additional Secretary Chaudhary M Tariq, Syed Nisar Shah, MNA Khel Das Kohistani, Hamesha Bhatija, Khalid Sheikh and others also attended the meeting.
\nResponding to a question, Ghani said the position of mayor was the one that every party sought, adding that morally, it was the right of the single largest party, which was the PPP.
\nHe said all the parties had the right to talk to each other and that the JI was the \u201cfirst priority\u201d of the PPP to work with.
\nThe huddle discussed the PPP and JI meeting, Karachi\u2019s situation after the municipal elections and other matters of importance.
\nLater, addressing a joint news conference, Shah Mohammad Shah said that both parties had the same position on other political issues including the development of the city.
\n\u201cWe will work together for the development of the city and province and whichever candidate we bring for the mayor of Karachi will be on merit. Hopefully the rest of the people will also support us.\u201d
\nShah said PPP and PML-N would participate in the upcoming by-elections and general elections, hoping that Nawaz Sharif would return to the Pakistan soon.
\nHe said Maryam Nawaz was expected to come back on January 28 or 29.
\nResponding to PTI\u2019s statement of declaring the PPP mandate in Sindh as fake, Ghani said, \u201cEveryone knows about the general elections of 2018 [wherein PTI emerged victorious]\u201d.
\nCommenting on JI\u2019s reservations on the powers of mayor, he said the powers were mentioned in the law, adding that whoever takes charge would abide by rules and regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ghani says PPP wants JI to work with them KARACHI With the members of the PTI expected to step down from their positions in Sindh, the leadership of PPP and PML-N Sindh has announced that the two parties will work as an ally in all the by-elections and general elections in Sindh. The PML-N leadership […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-309043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n