Publically, however, the PPP leaders have reiterated that they are working to secure ‘numbers’ in the National Assembly to contest the PM’s election. But Gilani did not make such a claim as fielding opposition’s joint candidate for the election of Punjab CM. Some senior PML-N leaders close to party president Shehbaz Sharif see the PPP’s intentions with scepticism. “It seems that the PPP is hardly pursuing a concrete plan for the PM or Punjab CM elections,” the source said. Even if we strongly contest the PTI and its partners in the elections of the PM and Punjab CM and give them tough time, it won’t work.

Source: The Express Tribune July 31, 2018 23:03 UTC