ISLAMABAD – A day after Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif AliZardari showed his readiness to join hands with the PakistanTehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) after upcoming elections, if needed, the PTI againruled out the possibility of an alliance between the two parties.
“Thank you Mr Zardari, we will not be requiring anyone’s support. The PTIwill emerge as the single largest party in parliament after the electionsand will form government on its own,” said PTI information secretary FawadChaudhry while commenting on Mr Zardari’s statement.
Talking to journalists in Lahore on Friday, Mr Zardari had said, “If apost-election situation requires it, we will strike an alliance with ImranKhan like we did in the Senate (elections).”
Mr Chaudhry said that Mr Khan had categorically stated that the PTI wouldnever join hands with the “Zardari’s PPP”, come what may.
Moreover, he said that the PTI would be fielding more than 200 candidatesfor the 272 general seats of the National Assembly and “we see no problemin winning 150 plus seats”.
He claimed that the other parties would not be able to field more than 100candidates each and both the PPP and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz(PML-N) would have to struggle a lot to find candidates.
He said that the PPP and the PML-N had become regional parties and the PTIhad no competition with any of them. “The PPP is a party of interior Sindhand the PML-N has become a central Punjab-based party,” he said, predictingthat the PML-N would become a “non-entity” after the elections.
He denied that the PTI had entered into any kind of understanding with thePPP in the recent election of Senate chairman.