ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s entire opposition parties on Monday vowed to uniteagainst Imran Khan.

They were discussing to form a grand opposition alliance after People’sParty (PPP) and PML-N succeeded in convincing Maulana Fazlur Rehman-led MMAto join parliament.

Senior leadership of the PML-N, PPP, Awami National Party (ANP) andMuttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) met in Islamabad to discuss ways and means toform governments in the centre and Punjab.

The meeting, chaired by PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif, also discussed theprevailing political situation in the country and way forward toeffectively address their grave concern of massive rigging.

Fazl conceded that raising issues in parliament could prove beneficial forthe alliance but insisted that opposition parties should continue withtheir strategy on numbers game .

He said mandate of the nation was stolen in the general election and thecoalition will raise this issue at every forum.

Monday s meeting was the second such interaction between leadership of theopposition parties after the first multi-party conference rejected electionresults and demanded re-elections.

ANP s Asfandyar Wali and JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman were not infavour of taking oath in parliament.

“We think a robbery has been committed,” Maulana Fazalur Rehman, head ofthe religious Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) party, told reporters.

“We will run a movement for the holding of elections again. There will beprotests… We will not allow democracy to be taken hostage by theestablishment,” he said.

But PML-N, while turning down MMA leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s proposal,termed it harmful to the democratic process and suggested that the partyshould instead register protest against alleged rigging in the polls.