Pakistan People’s Party top leader Asif Ali Zardari is expected to become the country’s president for a second term after his party agreed to ally with Pakistan Muslim League-N to form a government at the Centre, sources said on Wednesday
In a major political development a six-parties alliance including PML-N, PPP, MQM-P, PML-Q, IPP and BAP on Tuesday announced to form a government in the Centre on the pattern of the last government of the Pakistan Democratic Movement. The sources have revealed that the leadership of PML-N has agreed to support Zardari for the post of president in return for PPP’s support to Shehbaz for the PM’s post. If the situation remains unchanged, the country will see the PML-N’s prime minister and the PPP’s president.
Meanwhile, senior PPP leader and former prime minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani is tipped to be a candidate for the post of National Assembly speaker. According to sources, the PML-N will give two Senate seats to Pakistan People’s Party from Punjab. In another development, Asif Ali Zardari and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari have handed over their powers to a coordination committee.
They gave up their authority at a meeting of the coordination committee attended by the senior leaders of the party.
