Sheikh Rasheed predicts ‘implosion’ of PML-N

AML chief claims ‘forward bloc’ would emerge in former ruling party


News Desk August 03, 2018
AML chief claims ‘forward bloc’ would emerge in former ruling party. SCREENGRAB

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Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rasheed has predicted that a ‘forward bloc’ would emerge in the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, saying that the former ruling party would ‘implode’.

Speaking to the media outside the Bani Gala residence of prime minister-in-waiting Imran Khan on Friday, the AML chief claimed that several PML-N leaders – including former finance minister Ishaq Dar – would become ‘approvers’ against the Sharifs and testify against them [in corruption references].

Former premier Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Capt (retd) Safdar are currently serving jail sentences after their conviction in the Avenfield reference. Three more references against the former ruling family are pending adjudication in the court.

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Rasheed, who is also a close confidante of Imran Khan, dismissed rumours about defections and fragmentation in the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Punjab, where the PML-N is also engaged in wheeling and dealing in an effort to form its government in the province.

The AML chief claimed that the PTI would unveil a coalition government in Punjab by Monday. “I know the names of the proposed chief minister and cabinet members, but I would not disclose them here because Imran Khan has asked me to keep them to myself.”

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