ISLAMABAD: As Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) offered its services to play peacemaker between two major parties of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) President Asif Ali Zardari Wednesday agreed to mend fences with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and vowed to carry forward the anti-government struggle from the platform.
The breakthrough came during a meeting of Zardari with a BNP-M delegation who called on the PPP chief at Bilawal House, Karachi. The meeting was held in which consideration was given to end the ongoing differences in the PDM.
Sources in the opposition alliance have told Pakistan Today that Zardari held a meeting with a delegation of BNP-M and tasked it to speak with the fellow parties of the PDM to take decisions collectively.
Former president Zardari also phoned PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and agreed to resolve all differences together.
The sources said that the PPP chief also sent a message to the PML-N leadership through the delegation of the BNP-M, saying that the PPP is ready to end differences and grievances with the PML-N.
Given the apparently cooperative and conducive manner in which PPP Co-chairman Zardari is showing in his attempts to put an end to the ongoing differences within the PDM, the BNP-M has intensified its efforts to resolve the differences between the PML-N and the PPP in the PDM.
Senator Jehanzeb Jamaldini, who was leading the BNP-M delegation, said that Zardari gave a positive message in the meeting and this message will be conveyed to the PML-N leadership and will try to end the grievances.
The source said that in order to resolve the differences between the parties in the PDM, the PPP is ready to go to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) hearing on March 26 to express solidarity with Maryam Nawaz.
Meanwhile, Zardari and Fazl also discussed the political situation in Pakistan. The sources said Fazl said that all parties of the PDM should respect joint decisions.
The PDM chief said that according to a joint decision, the seat of the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate belongs to the PML-N. Fazl hoped that the PPP would respect the joint decisions of the PDM, the sources said.
The two leaders agreed to resolve all issues together and after the intervention of the PDM leadership, both parties stopped their workers and spokespersons from making opposing statements.
