Electoral alliance between PPP, PML-N ruled out

He said former president Asif Ali Zardari would meet Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, while PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif would also join the meeting through video link to discuss future line of action following dissolution of the Punjab Assembly and the possibility of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) rejoining the National Assembly.

He termed PTI Chairman Imran Khan a “democratic dictator”, saying he committed “political murder” of Punjab by dissolving the provincial assembly. He said Mr Khan wanted a “safe haven” from where he could use foul language against democratic political institutions and that’s why he was not dissolving the KP Assembly.

He told a questioner that consultations between the PPP and the PML-N were going on for nominating the caretaker chief minister of Punjab as the latter won’t decide it alone. He said unlike the PTI, the parties would announce “non-controversial” names for the slot.

He said Imran’s “vision” could be gauged from the fact that he nominated a serving bureaucrat for the slot of caretaker chief minister.

Mr Murtaza said former governor Chaudhry Sarwar was a progressive person, who was thinking about his political future.

He said the politics was a game of possibilities, and Asif Ali Zardari was an expert in picking the possibilities.

He said those who criticising the PPP’s victory in Sindh local elections were biased.