MURREE – An alliance of 11 opposition parties of Pakistan has failed toreach a consensus candidate for the slot of President of Pakistan.
The All Parties Comference (APC) of the grand opposition chaired byPakistan Muslim League-Nawaz ( PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif was held inMurree today.
The APC could not reach consensus to bring a joint candidate of theopposition for the elections of the president to be held on September 4.
The meeting which was attended by the leaders of 11 opposition partiesincluding Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) , Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl(JUI-F), Awami National Party (ANP), Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) andothers continued for around four hours.
During the meeting, the participants expressed grave concerns regarding PPPand complaint of the party’s withdrawal from premier elections and decidingagainst voting in favour of Shehbaz Sharif.
PML-N leaders Abdul Qadir Baloch, Ameer Muqam, Marriyum Aurangzeb, TariqFazal Chaudhary, Sardar Ayaz SAadiq, Ahsam Iqbal among other were presentin the meeting.
Yousaf Raza Gillani and Khurshid Shah were leading the PPP delegation whichincludes Sherry Rehman, Qamar-uz-Zaman Kaira and others.Similarly, Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman, Liaquat Baloch, Maulana Abdul GhafoorHyderi and Maulana Awais Noorani from MMA were participating in APC.