Pakistan’s two main parties will meet on Monday to try to overcome differences over forming a minority coalition government after an inconclusive election, a senior party official said, underscoring political and economic instability.
Analysts say the nuclear-armed country of 241 million people, which is facing an economic crisis against a backdrop of slow growth, record inflation and rising militant violence, needs a stable government with the authority to make tough decisions .
Monday’s talks will be the fifth of their kind after former Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was nominated by his Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) party to lead the country.
“Both parties have not yet reached an agreement on the final points,” said Ishaq Dar, a senator from Sharif’s party who is leading the talks.
“Negotiations on several proposals” for power-sharing are ongoing, he added in a statement published on social media platform X on Sunday.
Former Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has announced conditional support for the PML-N, saying it will vote for Sharif to form the government but will not take up cabinet positions.
“I can confirm that it has been decided in principle that the political parties will form a coalition government,” Dar told national broadcaster Geo TV.
Sharif, 72, who served as prime minister of the South Asian nation for 16 months until August, was named as the coalition’s candidate to be the next prime minister by his elder brother Nawaz Sharif, who is the head of the PML-N.
Source: Terra
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