ISLAMABAD: Next week, PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif will fly to Balochistan to strengthen his party’s ties with other parties in the region. A few days later, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari will also go to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to try to get support for the next elections.
The PML-N joined forces with the MQM-P on Tuesday and said they would be reaching out to other parties in Sindh.
It looks like it is now aiming for Balochistan. Ayaz Sadiq, the senior leader of the PML-N, went to the province and is said to have been able to get a former leader of the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) to join his party.
A leader of the BNP-M who used to be in the federal cabinet said that the PML-N was now talking to leaders from the BAP and that more were likely to join them.
“Both parties will work together for the elections if this plan doesn’t work out,” he said.
He also said that his party had heard of another deal in the region between the JUI-F, the ANP, and the Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party.
The head of the BNP-M went on to say that because the JUI-F and the PML-N are linked, this would lead to a big alliance in Balochistan.
He said that Sardar Akhtar Mengal, the leader of the BNP-M, was not in the country and that the problem had not been talked about within the party. He said that his party had no plans to work together with the PML-N at this time.
In a strange twist, the party leader said, it was the PML-N that called the BAP “the king’s party” before it joined forces with the PTI.
Faisal Kareem Kundi, the party’s media secretary, says that from November 16 to 21, the PPP chairman will also be in K-P.
He said that Bilawal would meet with a number of K-P figures, and that many of them would likely join the party.
Kundi went on to say that the PPP would also talk to other groups in K-P.
In a similar event, PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif, Nawaz’s younger brother and former premier, said that his party would return to power to finish the tasks that were “unfinished” during the 16-month term of the previous coalition government.
In a meeting with former MNA Syed Sajid Shah and ex-MPA Malik Nazir Langrial, both of whom worked for Vehari, he said, “Pakistan was on the verge of bankruptcy when the PML-N took over and managed to steer the country out of its crises.”
It was pointed out by Shehbaz that the PML-N had given up a lot for the good of the country, giving up electoral power.
The former PM talked about how the PML-N was committed to keeping Pakistan from falling further behind and how it was working on many development projects across the country, especially in Punjab.
He talked about Karachi and said that a lot of money had been given to many projects in the city because Nawaz thought it was important for it to grow.
