- Saad Rafique-led team calls on Pir Pagara and terms meeting on elections ‘position’
- Party also plans forming alliance with JUI-F, ANP and Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party in KP
ISLAMABAD: To further expand PML-N’s alliance with regional players and strengthen its footing ahead of the scheduled general elections, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif is scheduled to fly to Balochistan Monday (today) to review the situation and party organization.
On Tuesday last, the PML-N formed an alliance with the MQM-P and announced to reach out to other parties in Sindh.
To further this strategy, a PML-N team Sunday reached Karachi to meet Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) and other parties’ leadership.
In the first leg of the trip, senior leaders of PML-N including Khawaja Saad Rafique met with Pir Pagara and conveyed him Nawaz Sharif’s message.
Meanwhile, former federal minister and Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) central leader Khawaja Saad Rafiq said that parley with Pakistan Muslim League Functional (PML-F) President Pir Pagara on upcoming elections was positive.
There will be a positive outcome of the talk and both the parties are agreed to continue such meetings in future with a positive approach, the PML-N leader said.
He added that the meeting with Pir Pagara was held on the instructions of PML-N Supremo Nawaz Sharif. PML-N leader Ayaz Sadiq and newly-nominated Sindh President Bashir Memon were also present in the meeting. “We came here on the instructions of Nawaz Sharif. Meeting with the Pir was very positive. I hope such meetings will continue in a positive manner in future,” Saad told the media after the meeting.
Nawaz Sharif, who returned last month after around four-year stay in London, will hold meetings with PML-N Balochistan’s leadership during his visit to Quetta.
Scores of Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) leaders and some other distinguished Baloch leaders likely to announce join the PML-N, sources said.
Meanwhile, PML-N is also eyeing another alliance with the JUI-F, ANP and Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province.
It is pertinent to mention here that the PPP chairman too is expected to visit KP from November 16 to 21, according to the party’s information secretary Faisal Kareem Kundi.
JUI-F clarifies stance on seat adjustment, electoral alliance
Meanwhile, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) leader Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri clarified his party position on seat adjustment and electoral alliance ahead of the general elections 2024.
He clarified that the JUI-F central leadership allowed provincial chapters to go for seat-to-seat adjustment, however, it has not made a decision on electoral alliance with any political party so far.
He said that JUI-F safeguards the Islamic Constitution of Pakistan and the religio-political party could transfer the country into an Islamic welfare state. He criticised that the Constitution was approved in Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s era but Islamic laws were not implemented.
Haideri added that all former prime ministers including two-time PM Benazir Bhutto late and three-time PM Nawaz Sharif had not implemented Islamic laws.
He vowed that JUI-F would implement the Islamic governance system after coming into power. Unveiling the JUI-F manifesto, Haideri said that JUI-F would raise labourers’ salaries to Rs50,000, end corruption and commission practices and send looters to jails.
