*ISLAMABAD: Former president and Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has advised PM Shehbaz Sharif to continue with courage. *
According to the inside story of the meetings of PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman with PM Shehbaz Sharif to discuss the country’s present economic woes link.
Briefing the allied parties about the meeting with the PML-N supremo in London, PM Shehbaz Sharif said Nawaz Sharif desired long-time government for tough decisions.
Don’t leave the government now, it took a lot of effort to make you PM, the sources quoted Asif Ali Zardari saying to Shehbaz Sharif.
We will support you in tough decisions, the former president said. Meanwhile, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman conditionally accepted Nawaz Sharif’s narrative and added a new mandate, but we have to go into new elections after assurance.
Earlier, Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) proposed early general elections link in the country after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif took the party’s Convener Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui into confidence over decisions made during PML-N huddle in London.
The MQM-P strictly opposed the idea of raising fuel prices with Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui saying that they had to sacrifice their politics for the sake of the interest of the state.