PTI partner Pervaiz Elahi meets Zardari

PTI partner Pervaiz Elahi meets Zardari
PTI partner Pervaiz Elahi meets Zardari

LA HORE: In a rare move, Punjab Assembly Speaker and senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim LeagueQuaid (PML-Q) Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi called on former president Asif Ali Zardari here on Tuesday.

A press release issued after the meeting said both sides discussed matters of mutualinterestandnational political scene without giving any more details.

However, insiders said the two sides agreed to meet again shortly over a dinner to be attended by PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat too. They claimed that the reestablished contacts between the two former allies, which ruled the country from 2008 to 2013, are aimed at forming a future alliance along with the Awami National Party, a third ally of the past coalition government, besides other nationalist parties.

A close aide to the Chaudhrys of Gujrat sayd that some quarters were seeing snap polls by the year-end and the meeting should be taken in the context of exploring possibilities of political cooperation in that scenario. He claimed that Prime Minister Imran Khan cancelled his scheduled UK visit knowing the political storms in the making, both within his Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and in the ruling coalition.

The PML-Q is presently an ally of the PTI in Punjab and relations between the two parties have been seeing ups and downs for quite some time as the former complains that the latter has been ignoring, or refusing to accept, its certain demands.