'Grand alliance against govt in the offing'

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) incarcerated leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that all major parties were endorsing the PTI stance and that a grand opposition alliance was expected to form soon.

In an informal conversation with the media on Wednesday, the PTI vice chairman said politicians like Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Miftah Ismail, Mehmood Khan Achakzai and Maulana Fazlur Rehman were also supporting the PTI stance.

He predicted that Shehbaz Sharif and Hamza Shehbaz would be acquitted in all cases. He pointed out that the appointments of judges should have been delayed till the conclusion of petitions challenging the 26th Constitutional Amendment.

The former foreign minister also criticized the government on briefing the IMF mission on internal affairs.