Forming alliances: PML-Q Likeminded groups still undecided
With the phenomenal rise of PTI, many of the leaders are still confused about who to form an alliance with.
ISLAMABAD:
The Likeminded faction of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) is still undecided over the question of forming an alliance with either Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) or Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
The faction has been in talks with the PML-N for over six months now but without a definitive outcome.
“I think the deal is finalised now and there would be a formal announcement soon,” a confident Senator Mushahidullah Khan, Information Secretary of the PML-N, asserted while talking to The Express Tribune.
However, bringing into the equation the phenomenal rise of PTI in recent months, many of the leaders are still confused over the decision.
That has led to Senator Salim Saifullah Khan, leader of the Likeminded faction in negotiation with the PML-N, not making a formal announcement.
“They (members) are in contact with Imran Khan as well as Nawaz Sharif on their own … and this is the reason Salim Saifullah is delaying the final announcement of alliance with the N-League,” a source close to the development said.
The PML-Q’s Likeminded group had already split into two factions over the question of forming the alliance, with one splinter group, led by former foreign minister Khurshid Kasuri, joining PTI.
Kashmala Tariq, Ghulam Haider Sameejo, Arbab Zakaullah, Gulshan Saeed, Ghaffar Qureshi, Humayun Akhtar Khan and Kishan Parvani are still connected with the faction led by Salim Saifullh Khan, according to claims of some Likeminded leaders.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 9th, 2012.
The Likeminded faction of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) is still undecided over the question of forming an alliance with either Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) or Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
The faction has been in talks with the PML-N for over six months now but without a definitive outcome.
“I think the deal is finalised now and there would be a formal announcement soon,” a confident Senator Mushahidullah Khan, Information Secretary of the PML-N, asserted while talking to The Express Tribune.
However, bringing into the equation the phenomenal rise of PTI in recent months, many of the leaders are still confused over the decision.
That has led to Senator Salim Saifullah Khan, leader of the Likeminded faction in negotiation with the PML-N, not making a formal announcement.
“They (members) are in contact with Imran Khan as well as Nawaz Sharif on their own … and this is the reason Salim Saifullah is delaying the final announcement of alliance with the N-League,” a source close to the development said.
The PML-Q’s Likeminded group had already split into two factions over the question of forming the alliance, with one splinter group, led by former foreign minister Khurshid Kasuri, joining PTI.
Kashmala Tariq, Ghulam Haider Sameejo, Arbab Zakaullah, Gulshan Saeed, Ghaffar Qureshi, Humayun Akhtar Khan and Kishan Parvani are still connected with the faction led by Salim Saifullh Khan, according to claims of some Likeminded leaders.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 9th, 2012.