LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif have discussed matters regarding the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM).
According to sources, efforts for forming an anti-government alliance started as, after a month of silence, the top leaders of the two major opposition parties — Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) — got into touch with each other on Thursday.
Sources further said PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto has telephoned PML-N President and Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif. Both leaders wished Eid to each other.
Bilawal Bhutto and Shehbaz Sharif also discussed the anti-public measures of the government including highlighting public issues on the Assembly floor, sources added.
On this occasion, the PPP leader also enquired after Shahbaz Sharif’s health, while the latter expressed good wishes for the health of former president Asif Ali Zardari.
On April 12, the PPP had announced that the party’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) had called upon its members to resign from all positions of the PDM, while leaders of the ANP had withdrawn from the alliance after show-cause notices were issued to the party to explain their actions during the recently held Senate polls.
The PDM had served notices to PPP and ANP after they unilaterally got Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani elected Opposition leader in the Senate, violating a consensus decision of the PDM.
On April 28, Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) head Moulana Fazlur Rehman had accepted the resignations of Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) and Awami National Party (ANP) from all posts of the opposition alliance.
