KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N have agreed over seat adjustment on Karachi’s NA-242 seat.
The deadlock between the two parties on NA-242 was resolved after several rounds of dialogues as MQM-Pakistan finally accepted PML-N’s demand and decided to withdraw its candidate Mustafa Kamal in favour of former premier Shehbaz Sharif.
Sources said that MQM-P will officially made the announcement after the telephonic contact between heads of two parties –Shehbaz Sharif and Khalid Maqbool Siddique.
The MQM-P has already offered its support to the PML-N in three other NA constituencies of Karachi — two from Malir and one in Lyari.
However, the party [MQM-P] has categorically conveyed that it would not show any compromise in NA-240 where the PML-N wants Owais Noorani of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan to contest, the source said.
Similarly, he said, the MQM-P would also not withdraw from NA-243, where the PML-N wanted to field Akhtar Jadoon, a former Sindh minister and PPP leader.
According to sources, two allied parties have also agreed that the PML-N candidates will contest on the National Assembly seats of Mirpur Khas, Nawabshah and Sukkur districts, while the MQM will field its candidates on provincial assembly seats in these districts. –Agencies
