SWABI, Nov 12: Provincial vice-president of PML(N) and former information minister, Abdus Subhan Khan, has claimed that a deal between Pakistan People’ Party and the government is under way.

Talking to newsmen in Totali on Sunday, he said both sides needed each other’s support. While the government wanted a political support to encounter religious parties protests, the PPP needed withdrawal of cases against Ms Banazir Bhutto, her spouse Asif Ali Zardari and other leaders, he added.

He said both parties had already presented their points of view to each other and now it seemed that they were finalizing the modalities of the deal and looking for a face-saving formula.

He criticized the ANP’s support to government on Afghan’s policy. He said those who claimed to be leaders of Pakhtoons were the same who had welcomed the occupation of Afghanistan by the Red Army in 1979.