Despite differences both old and new, the PPP and PML(N) were never united in recent history as strongly as they are now. On Friday, PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari visited Jati Umra to meet the PML(N) leadership and held a joint presser along with PML(N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz. While the PPP Central Executive Committee is yet to take a decision of the issue of resignations, Mr Bilawal Zardari maintained that there would be no division in the PDM on the issue of resignations. He even claimed that he was in fact receiving resignations of his party legislators in large numbers. Yesterday six PPP and PML(N) leaders met at Bilawal House Lahore to review arrangements of the Lahore rally and discuss the future steps of the agitation, including resignations
Ms Nawaz claimed that over the last few days senior PTI leaders, including ministers, had been contacting the PML(N) leaders with requests for talks. She reasserted the stand that there can be no parleys with the PTI government that had been formed through a stolen mandate. To show to the PML(N) rank and file that the decisions being taken by the PDM had the full support of the party’s supreme leader, Mian Nawaz Sharif convened the PML(N) working committee meeting yesterday where all took oath that they would abide by party discipline and follow whatever decisions were taken by the party including resignations, long march, and sit-ins. The PMLN() knows it is expected to play the most vital role in organising protests on account of having the largest following in Punjab. It also understands that it would be the principle beneficiary if the ongoing agitation achieved its goal. The PML(N) is therefore keen to keep the PDM united despite the differences.
The PTI leadership is nervous for it is now being subjected to criticism couched in the sort of acerbic language that it employed against the governments in power. Federal Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has suddenly discovered that PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman had contacts in British intelligence agency MI6 and was allegedly involved in anti-state activities besides corruption. The question is why didn’t the government take immediate action instead of keeping the so called information to itself only to disclose it on the eve of the Lahore rally?
https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2020/12/12/pti-in-a-spin/
PTI in a spin, Accusation as a stock response: Edit in Pakistan Today, Dec 12th, 2020
Despite differences both old and new, the PPP and PML(N) were never united in recent history as strongly as they are now. On Friday, PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari visited Jati Umra to meet the PML(N) leadership and held a joint presser along with PML(N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz. While the PPP Central Executive Committee is yet to take a decision of the issue of resignations, Mr Bilawal Zardari maintained that there would be no division in the PDM on the issue of resignations. He even claimed that he was in fact receiving resignations of his party legislators in large numbers. Yesterday six PPP and PML(N) leaders met at Bilawal House Lahore to review arrangements of the Lahore rally and discuss the future steps of the agitation, including resignations
Ms Nawaz claimed that over the last few days senior PTI leaders, including ministers, had been contacting the PML(N) leaders with requests for talks. She reasserted the stand that there can be no parleys with the PTI government that had been formed through a stolen mandate. To show to the PML(N) rank and file that the decisions being taken by the PDM had the full support of the party’s supreme leader, Mian Nawaz Sharif convened the PML(N) working committee meeting yesterday where all took oath that they would abide by party discipline and follow whatever decisions were taken by the party including resignations, long march, and sit-ins. The PMLN() knows it is expected to play the most vital role in organising protests on account of having the largest following in Punjab. It also understands that it would be the principle beneficiary if the ongoing agitation achieved its goal. The PML(N) is therefore keen to keep the PDM united despite the differences.
The PTI leadership is nervous for it is now being subjected to criticism couched in the sort of acerbic language that it employed against the governments in power. Federal Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has suddenly discovered that PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman had contacts in British intelligence agency MI6 and was allegedly involved in anti-state activities besides corruption. The question is why didn’t the government take immediate action instead of keeping the so called information to itself only to disclose it on the eve of the Lahore rally?
https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2020/12/12/pti-in-a-spin/
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