Federal Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Saturday suggested that opposition parties part of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) to merge into a new political party and to contest the upcoming local government elections.
While speaking to the media in Lahore, Chaudhry added that the alliance should convert into a political party with PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman as their leader.
He said that the PDM should contest elections as one political party to achieve “some semblance of a national colour because separately they don’t have the ability”, further adding that all opposition parties had become region-specific parties instead of national entities.
The federal minister opined that PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari had “destroyed the party in a way even [General] Ziaul Haq couldn’t”.
Earlier on Thursday, opposition parties of the alliance against the incumbent government in it would contest the upcoming Senate elections jointly.
