ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: As the opposition parties were mulling over formation of a grand alliance against the federal government, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman held a meeting at the PM House in Islamabad on Tuesday.
During the meeting, both the leaders discussed current political situation besides other matters of national interest.
They also discussed the federal government’s development schemes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces.
The meeting between the two political allies in the Center occurred as the opposition parties especially the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) were endeavoring to form an anti-government grand alliance.
Earlier on Monday, the PML-Q Chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said while talking to media in Karachi that a grand alliance of opposition parties was the need of the hour to expose the wrongdoings of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
Following his return to Pakistan on December 23 after 18-month self-imposed exile, the PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday met Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and discussed the political situation prevailing in the country, and forming a grand opposition alliance.
The two leaders stressed the need of not only a grand opposition alliance to put the PML-N government under pressure but also unanimously-approved electoral reforms before the next general elections so that the doors of coming into power through rigging could be plugged.
