MQM-P faces ‘refusal from PML-N for four ministries’ in next govt

As main events elevated collaborations and assurances to type the subsequent governments within the Centre and provinces, the talks between Muttahida Qaumi Motion-Pakistan (MQM-P) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) have stalled as soon as once more over the division of “ministries within the subsequent cupboard.”

The alliance between the Khalid-led celebration and the Nawaz-led celebration is as soon as once more within the doldrums because the MQM-P, which gained 17 Nationwide Meeting (NA) seats after the overall elections 2024, “did not get assurances from the PML-N for its desired numbers of 4 ministries within the subsequent federal cupboard,” Geo Information reported citing sources.

The celebration’s dream of simply bargaining “4 ministries” was shattered by the previous ruling celebration which “supplied just one ministry” after a number of rounds of talks between high leaderships of either side.

The sources nearer to the Nawaz-led celebration revealed that the PML-N has additionally been demanded to retain the Sindh governor from the MQM-P.

The Khalid-led celebration is prepared to participate within the voting for the prime minister, and the NA speaker slots, nevertheless, it signalled to abstain from voting within the upcoming elections for the president and the Senate chairman’s posts, the sources revealed.

In a tit-for-tat transfer, the MQM-P additionally “determined to not be part of the subsequent federal cupboard till the fulfilment of its calls for,” it emerged.

Nonetheless, the PML-N leaders have been eager for “discovering an answer to persuade the MQM-P as either side haven’t concluded the dialogues but”.

The event got here to the limelight after the MQM-P’s high leaders — Kamran Tessori and Mustafa Kamal — confronted an untoward scenario of their purported audio conversations leaked on social media platforms by which they have been complaining about “paying the price of turning into a part of the Shahbaz Sharif-led coalition”, and accusing the Pakistan Peoples Get together (PPP) of trying to nook them.

Each MQM-P leaders confirmed the veracity of the audios, nevertheless, they termed them to be taken “out-of-context.”

It’s pertinent to say right here that the MQM-P stood at fourth rank as per celebration positioning within the Nationwide Meeting after the preliminary outcomes of the February 8 nationwide polls.