Pakistan heads toward a coalition government
ISLAMABAD The party of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
and its abettors blazoned late Tuesday that they will concertedly form a coalition government, ending the query since last
week when no party won a simple maturity in administrative choices. The rearmost development came hours after the
parties all of them rivals of the country's locked former Prime Minister Imran Khan — met in Islamabad. The meeting was
attended by the Pakistan People's Party of former President Asif Ali Zardari and by Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League,
including his youngish family, Shehbaz Sharif, who replaced Khan when he was ousted through a no- confidence vote in
congress in 2022. At a news conference with Zardari and other politicians, Shebaz Sharif didn't say who would be the
common choice for high minister, though it's extensively believed that Sharif would head the new government. In his brief
reflections, Sharif said that the addresses on a coalition were successful. " We've decided that we will form the government
concertedly," Zardari said. A prophet for the Pakistan Muslim League, Marriyum Aurangzeb, said that the elder Sharif — a
three- time high minister — had nominated his youngish family for the high minister part. The Pakistan Muslim League
party had been in addresses with Zardari and other abettors after Thursday's election for the National Assembly or lower
house of the congress. Though campaigners backed by Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party won 93 out of 265 National
Assembly seats, it wasn't enough to form a government. Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League and Zardari's Pakistan People's
Party won 75 and 54 seats independently. The unexpectedly strong caching for Khan's party were a shock for former Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif who was marked out as the important security establishment's preferred seeker following his
smooth return to the country last October. Pakistan's service has always cast itself as the ultimate arbitrator in who
becomes high minister. Tuesday's move by the rivals of Khan came hours after Khan's PTI party refused to hold any
addresses with them. Khan, who's presently serving multiple captivity terms because of persuasions on charges of
corruption and violating a marriage law, was disqualified from querying the vote. Members of Khan's party also had to
dispute the vote as independent campaigners after the Election Commission and Supreme Court stripped his party of its
electoral symbol, which helps illiterate choosers find campaigners on the ballot. They also assessed other legal walls. Khan's
party says last Thursday's vote was outfitted to stop it from getting a maturity in the congress, a charge the election
officers denied. Under the constitution, Pakistan's President Arif Alvi will convene the initial National Assembly session
before Feb. 29 so that lawgivers can be sworn in. The congress will latterly handpick the new high minister.
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