LAHORE: The PPP and the PML-Q may adopt a “common strategy” for Senate elections.

PPP Central Punjab President Manzoor Wattoo called on PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Husain at his residence on Tuesday.

Talking to reporters after the meeting, Shujaat said: “Negotiations with the PPP are in progress for adopting a common strategy for the Senate election.”

To a question about his contesting the Senate election, he said: “If the party asks me I will consider contesting the election.”

To another question about US president’s visit to India as failure of Pakistan, he said that was not the failure of Pakistan but of the PML-N government.

“Had President Obama come to Pakistan, we would have welcomed him in a grand manner,” he said.

Shujaat said the Senate’s Defence Committee had reviewed the situation in North Waziristan. The army had achieved success there as propaganda about the IDPs was wrong. “The IDPs are being provided with facilities under the management of the army,” he said.

Wattoo said he paid a visit to the PML-Q chief on behalf of Asif Ali Zardari.

He said all opposition parties should contest Senate election together against the government. “It is need of the hour that all opposition parties should get together to offset the impact of the worst governance in the country.”

Wattoo took strong exception to the reports suggesting that the government was deleting the names of recipients of the Benazir Income Support Programme.

Published in Dawn, January 28th, 2015

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