ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) gives a blow to thePakistan People’s Party over the Presidential election.
PML N on Sunday categorically stated that Mr Ahsan could not be considereda joint opposition candidate because the PPP had not consulted any of theparties sitting on the opposition benches before making the decision.
The PML-N is also angry because the PPP refused to vote for ShahbazSharif in the Aug 17 election for the office of prime minister only becauseof his controversial statements against the PPP leadership in the past,whereas the PPP has now nominated a person who had also made some nastyremarks about the illness of Nawaz Sharif and his wife Kulsoom Nawaz inrecent past.
“How can you expect us to vote for the nominee of Asif Ali Zardari afterrefusal of the PPP to vote for our president (Shahbaz Sharif) in theNational Assembly and our candidate (Hamza Shahbaz for the office of chiefminister) in the Punjab Assembly,” said PML-N information secretary andSenator Mushahidullah Khan, when contacted to seek his party’s viewpoint onthe PPP’s move.