PPP Chairman Bilawal reveals power-sharing package offered by PML-N

Pakistan’s former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Sunday revealed the power-sharing package offered to him, in which the prime minister’s post would be shared between his party and the Muslim League-Sharif led by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, and formed an alliance with the alliance after the polls.

Four-time former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Bhutto-Zardari’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) met on Saturday to discuss several issues Much progress has been made but no statement has been made by the coalition government.

The two parties formed an alliance after the polls earlier this week.

Independent candidates – backed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party of 71-year-old jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan – form a majority in the February 8 election won 93 of the 265 seats in the National Assembly.

PML-N won 75 seats, while the PPP came in third with 54 seats.

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) also agreed to support them with its 17 seats.

To form a government, a party must win 133 of the 265 contested seats in the 266-member National Assembly. Addressing a rally in Thatta city in Sindh province, 35-year-old PPP chief Bilawal revealed a power-sharing package offered to his party, which he rejected, Dawn reported.

‘I was told let us be prime minister for three years and then you can be prime minister for the remaining two years,’ he said. I say no to this. “I said I don’t want to be such a prime minister,” Bilawal said. He added that if I become the prime minister, it will be after the people of Pakistan elect me.

The former foreign minister asserted that the country needs a political party that talks about people’s issues, saying the brewing economic and political crisis has led to divisions in society.

What should happen, he said, is that politicians and all political parties should not only focus on personal interests but should consider the people of the country.

His remarks came a day after Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chattha claimed that candidates who lose elections are destined to win in the city.

Before resigning, he claimed that 13 candidates from Rawalpindi were forcibly declared the winners. Chatta resigned after “taking responsibility” for rigging the poll results.

(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from associated news agency – PTI)