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. ...