Lahore: After taking MQM-P on board, PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif will likely visit Balochistan next week to join hands with the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) for upcoming polls.
“During his visit to Balochistan, Mr Sharif is also expected to meet some electives, and a formal alliance with the BAP will be announced,” a party insider told Republic policy.
“The elder Sharif is keen to grab ‘reasonable seats’ in Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which he considers very important to form the federal government after the coming elections,” he said.
In KP, the party leader said that the PML-N’s alliance with the JUI-F of Maulana Fazlur Rehman was “almost certain”.
The PML-N, however, appears reluctant to accommodate the PML-Q of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and the Istehkam-i-Pakistan Party (IPP) of Jehangir Khan Tareen.
Both Mr Shujaat and Mr Tareen played their role in toppling the Imran Khan government in April last year with an understanding with the Sharifs that seat adjustments would be made with them in general elections.
However, in a changing political scenario in which the PML-N has emerged as a “sole favourite” party of the powers that be, the party is calling the shots on its terms.
