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Oppn to challenge Imran with own PM pick


Date:- 04 Aug 2018


They are unlikely to derail Khan’s election as PM but the alliance will pose a block to his political agenda

Pakistan’s two former dominant political parties said on Thursday they would join forces to field their own candidate for prime minister in parliament, challenging former cricket star Imran Khan, whose party won last week’s general election. “It is an alliance which is against the rigged elections, and where all the political parties were not provided a free and fair, level playing field,” said Maryam Aurangzeb, speaking for the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) of jailed exprime minister Nawaz Sharif.

The alliance with several other smaller parties appeared unlikely to derail Khan’s election as prime minister, but it could leave him with a thin majority that could make enacting his agenda difficult.

Khan’s party, which won 116 of the 272 elected seats in the National Assembly, is believed to have enough would-be coalition partners among smaller parties and independents to win a majority vote to form a government.

The opposition alliance was not believed to have the numbers to block Khan’s election.

A European Union election monitoring team in its initial assessment described the election campaign as an unequal playing field but said it was up to the people of Pakistan to decide on the vote’s legitimacy.

The PML-N joined with the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and several smaller nationalist and religious parties in forming the opposition alliance, known as the All Parties Conference.

The PML-N and PPP have traded power in Pakistan for most of its history in between periods of military rule after the army seized power, which itself accounts for nearly half of the 71 years since independence from Britain.

Courtesy: Mirror: Aug, 04 2018