PML-Q to consider PML-N\u2019s proposal; PTI wonders why Nawaz delivered speech
\nIslamabad
\nPakistan Peoples Party (PPP) stalwart Khursheed Shah said Friday that his party was unlikely to join hands with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) if Nawaz Sharif portrays himself as the next prime minister.
\nAlthough not all results have been issued yet, and the ones available are unofficial, PML-N supremo Nawaz has claimed that his party has emerged as the \u201csingle-largest party\u201d, inviting others to join forces and form the next government.
\n\u201cNawaz Sharif wishes to become the prime minister […] but I don\u2019t my party will form a coalition with him if he projects himself as the premier,\u201d Shah told Geo News, hours after the world\u2019s fifth-biggest democracy voted to elect its leaders.
\nShah, whose party wants to see PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari as the next premier, said Nawaz\u2019s announcement was \u201cpremature\u201d and said that he had declared himself as the prime minister three days back \u2014 an apparent reference to the ads that the PML-N had published in different news dailies.
\nThe PPP stalwart, who has also served as a federal minister, noted that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed independent candidates also have 72 hours to join any party once the official results are out.
\n\u201cWe will take decisions after due deliberations,\u201d Shah said, as he further slammed Nawaz, wondering: \u201cWhat majority does the PML-N have?\u201d
\nNawaz, the PML-N\u2019s candidate for the premiership, said earlier that he seeks to form a united government after his party \u201cemerged victorious\u201d in the February 8 general election.
\n\u201cI have tasked Shehbaz Sharif to meet Fazlur Rehman, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, and Asif Ali Zardari today,\u201d Nawaz told a charged crowd in Lahore\u2019s Model Town, which was there to listen to his \u201cvictory speech\u201d.
\nMeanwhile, PML-Quaid\u2019s Chaudhry Salik Hussain told Geo News that his party would consider PML-N\u2019s proposal tomorrow once all his party\u2019s candidates\u2019 results are in.
\n\u201cWe will discuss and see whose manifesto is better \u2014 be it PPP or PML-N,\u201d Salik said, as he did not flat-out refuse Nawaz\u2019s offer to join hands.
\nIn response to Nawaz, PTI leader Asad Qaiser, who has secured a National Assembly constituency, said that the PTI emerged as the single-largest party in the Feb 8 vote.
\n\u201cThe government machinery was used against us.\u201d Additionally, he mentioned: \u201cWe have three to four options, and we are also considering intra-party elections. We will also approach the court. Tomorrow, we will decide the future course of action.\u201d
\n\u201cBut I don\u2019t understand the reason behind Mian sahib\u2019s speech,\u201d he said, slamming the PML-N supremo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PML-Q to consider PML-N\u2019s proposal; PTI wonders why Nawaz delivered speech Islamabad Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) stalwart Khursheed Shah said Friday that his party was unlikely to join hands with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) if Nawaz Sharif portrays himself as the next prime minister. Although not all results have been issued yet, and the ones […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-386136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n