Ahsan Iqbal, leader of the PML-N and a former federal minister, said Wednesday that his party supported a strong and successful local government system. He said this after meeting with a delegation from the MQM-P, which is an ally in Sindh, at his home in Islamabad.
Iqbal told the reporters after the meeting that the MQM-P delegation had given his party the draft of the constitutional amendments and they had talked about it.
“There is no better place to solve people’s problems than in their own communities.” “We told them [MQM-P] that we would do everything we could to make sure that the constitutional changes were approved by the next parliament,” he said.
The head of the PML-N said again that his party will always back the MQM-P. Also, both parties chose to work with their partners in Sindh to get more seats. The PML-N leader said, “We didn’t talk about sharing any positions or ministries. We only talked about the people and their problems.”
Iqbal said that Nawaz Sharif, the leader of the PML-N, was found guilty in cases that were not true. After Nawaz was found not guilty in the Avenfield case, he hoped that he would also be found not guilty in the Al-Azizia case. Farooq Sattar, leader of the MQM-P and a member of the group, spoke at the event and said that his party and the PML-N had joined forces to try to reach a national consensus.
He also said that his party had done its research and found that the country could only move forward with a strong system of local government. Mustafa Kamal, head of the MQM-P, said that the PPP, which used to work with both parties in coalitions, did not have the skill to form a government in Sindh. He said that no other party could do that.
Sindh is a haven for the PPP because it has been in power there for almost 15 years. “Our party, the MQM-P, is the second biggest in Sindh.” His point was that even the PML-N has had a chief minister in the state. He went on to say that the parties in the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) were still in charge in Sindh as well.
As Kamal said, it is now even more clear that the goal of the partnership between the PML-N and the MQM-P is to get rid of the PPP in Sindh.
