Ijaz Kakakhel Islamabad
As the newly formed government moves toward the Senate polls, the Pakistan People’s Party and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F decided to support each other in the election of the upper house of parliament, in a meeting on Tuesday.
“The People’s Party will support the JUI in Balochistan Senate elections, while the JUI will extend support to Yousaf Raza Gillani,” JUI-F leader Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri said.
“We will not participate in government making but play our role in the Parliament,” Haideri further said. PPP leader Nayyar Bukhari said that the PPP will extend support to the JUI-F candidate in the Senate’s by-election in Balochistan. Balochistan’s three Senate seats have been vacated and the JUI has requested for the PPP’s support in Balochistan, Bukhari said. Yousaf Raza Gillani said, “We have discussed over the matter with Maulana Sahib scores of times we welcome him here”. “We are supporting to each other for the Parliament and will work in tandem in the house,” he added.
It is to be mentioned here that Gillani and Sunni Ittehad Council’s Ilyas Meharban will contest in Senate by-election on the vacant seat from Islamabad. The Senate by election will be held for six seats of the upper house in Islamabad, Sindh and Balochistan on March 14 (Thursday).
