KARACHI: A late night meeting between opposition leaders and the government- confederated MQM-P created quite a stir in the capital.
While the concerted opposition tried with all its might to prevail upon the party to advertise a decision there and also, MQM-P avoided making a definitive statement at such a late hour and blazoned that it would make its decision public the coming day.
An MQM-P prophet said that while the draft agreement had been finalised, the party would only advertise its decision once the same was ratified by the collaboration commission.
Originally, an opposition delegation conforming of Khawaja Asif, Sherry Rehman, Naveed Qamar, Ayaz Sadiq, Akhtar Mengal, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah and others reached Parliament Lodges a little before night.
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They held addresses with MQM convener Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and other leaders, which continued well into the early hours of Wednesday.
Latterly, the main cohort of opposition leaders – Asif Ali Zardari and his son Bilawal, Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Shehbaz Sharif – also reached the venue around 200 am in a shot to convert the government supporter to switch sides.
Television channels were submersed with news about the possible outgrowth of the meeting throughout the night. While multiple outlets reported that opposition sources claimed the MQM-P had all but agreed to join them, some channels quoted Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and Waeem Akhtar as saying that nothing had been decided.
Sources privy to the meeting said that the sitting bandied certain clauses about a unborn agreement between the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and MQM-P regarding Sindh’s executive and original government issues in the presence of elderly leadership of other opposition parties.
The draft agreement isn’t only with the PPP, but with the whole opposition, a source said, adding that Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Shehbaz Sharif would insure perpetration on the agreement if it was approved by the collaboration commission.
Still, it would drastically cock the scales in the their favour, If MQM-P were to throw its weight behind the opposition. According to some estimates, the ruling coalition has a strength of 171 members, since the lone Jamaat legislator has tagged to stay neutral in the no- confidence vote.
The opposition, on the other hand, seems to have 169 members on its side after the Balochistan Awami Party joined its species.
This precarious balance could fluently be listed if the MQM-P’s seven members cross over to the opposition’s side.
