ISLAMABAD – *Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rasheed on Saturdaysaid surfacing of another forward bloc in the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz(PML-N) was on the cards after the upcoming elections.*
“Some ‘birds’ have already taken flight, while some will be selected, whowill jointly make the bloc,” he said while talking to media in Rawalpindi.
He said politics of the PML-N had deflated in Lahore, stronghold of theparty, on Friday with poor power show.
“This many number of people attend our corner meeting, as many resorted tostreets to welcome Maryam Nawaz and Nawaz Sharif in Lahore,” he saidsharing the fact that only in Karachi, 70-80,000 people had taken tostreets in campaign against founder of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
On July 6, the accountability court sentenced former premier Nawaz Sharifto a total of 10 years in prison and directed him to pay a fine of £8million after finding him guilty on different charges in the Avenfieldproperties case. The court has handed out seven-year imprisonment to Maryamand a fine of £2 million in the same case.
Sheikh Rasheed said it was requisite for them to file an appeal against thecourt verdict, therefore they realised it was necessary to return toPakistan.