The conundrum over the government formation♛ in trouble-torn Pakistan continued on Tuesday with PPP announcing to back PML-N's candidate for the prime minister's post.
Jailed former Pakistan PM has dismissed the idea of forming a coalition government with anyꦜ of tꩵhe main political parties.
According to Geo News report, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has announced that he was withdrawing from the candidacy for prime minister's post as "the PPP doesn't have the mandate🌺 to form the federal government".
"It is a fact that the PPP d🐓oes not have a mandate to form the federal government and due to that I will not be putting myself forward for the candidacy of the prime▨ minister of Pakistan," he was quoted as saying.
He as per the report also said the PTI and PML-N have more numbers than his party in the National Assembly, but since the former has announced that they would not engage in any dialogue with the PPP, there is no possibility of a P❀TI or independents-led government in thౠe country.
He has also said “as the PPP is not in a position to form the government in the Centre, it would not be in♏terested in taking fꦫederal ministries in the setup.”
"We don’t want to see chaos in the country or perpet൲ual crisis in the country," he was quoted as saying.
Ea🦩rlier, PTI had claimed that the former ruling party, upon directions of its founder Imran Khan, wiꦦll join hands with Majlis-e-Wahdat-Muslimeen (MWM) to form its governments in Centre and Punjab.
PTI spokesperson Raoof Hasan ha🧔d ruled ruling out the prospects of any talks with the PML-N, PPP and MQM-P.
Hasan said he was directed by Imran Khan to form a coali🐎tion wit♛h Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) over reserved seats.
The 71-year🐟-old Khan was speaking with journalists at the high-security Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
Khan and many of his par👍ty colleagues are lodged in jail for many months in connection with convictions in multiple cases.
In the February 8 general elections, independent candidates, most🌄ly backed by Khan's PTI, won 101 seats in the 266-member National Assembly, another former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's party (PML-N) won 75 seats and former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari's party (PPP) won 54 seats.
A coalition government appears inevitable as no single party has got the majority in the National Assembly✤ and Pakistan stares at a hung Parliament. Negotiations between Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) have been going on for two days. Independents became an easy target.
Khan s🐼aid there would be no talk with the PML-N, the PPP, and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) but expressed willingꦡness to contact all other parties and groups.
Khan also alleged that elections were rigged and said it would incre𓆉ase instability in the country and negatively impact the economy.
He kept saying that free and transparent elect🐓ions were the only solution.
“Such electoral fraud never happened in t൲he history of the country,”Khan said.
“Attemp♍ts are being made to bring down the money laundering syndicate to power. The Sharif family is the biggest money launderer of the c๊ountry,” he alleged and added that the country's biggest problem was dollars and alleged that the Sharif family would send dollars abroad.
“Those wh🍷o have been brought [to rule] are the biggest money launderers,꧙” Khan was quoted as by Geo News saying.
The PTI founder further claimed that both Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz lost the elections and said, “We are the first to challenge the election results. We will also approach the Supreme Court against the election results.”
