The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League -Nawaz (PML-N) have agreed to convene an All-Parties Conference (APC) immediately after Eid-ul-Azha to devise a joint strategy against the government.
A PML-N delegation including Ahsan Iqbal, Saad Rafique, and Ayaz Sadiq reached Bilawal House in Lahore to meet the PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and finalise the agenda for the conference.
Addressing the media after the meeting, PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal said that the PPP and PML-N are unanimous in agreeing that the current government was responsible for the economic crisis in the country.
Speaking to the media after the meeting, Qamar Zaman Kaira said that the opposition parties had been in touch with each other for a long time. A joint strategy will be chalked out to steer the country out of the crisis, he added.
He slammed the government for keeping opposition leaders Khursheed Shah and Hamza Shehbaz in detention. “This government is also responsible for suffocating the media,” he said, reprimanding authorities for arresting Jang/Geo Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman and calling for his immediate release.
In response to a question, Kaira said that both parties were in agreement that the incumbent government was the ‘problem’ and that they must work to rid the nation of it.
The opposition’s movement against the government is expected to gain momentum in the coming week as Bilawal visits Lahore. A meeting with Shehbaz Sharif is expected even though PML-N has been isolating due
