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Karachi (July 31, 2018): A delegation of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf under Jahangir Tareen arrived at Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan’s Bahadurabad office on Monday night to seek party’s support in the formation of government in the centre.

Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan Convenor Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui on Tuesday announced that Rabitta Committee will make the final decision on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s invitation to join the federal government.

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MQM-P has put forward its demands before the PTI leaders to get its six-member support in the lower house, sources said.

The demand includes Karachi Package, constitutional amendment for empowered local bodies, administrative units for the urban Sindh, community police and mass transit in Karachi. The MQM-P has conditioned its support on the acceptance of their demands.

In a press conference held after the meeting, Tareen said that he had a positive meeting with the MQM leadership and has invited the party to join federal government, adding that the people of Karachi gave a joint mandate to the PTI and Siddiqui’s party.

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“To move forward we have to think of the masses. Its in the manifesto of PTI to resolve basic issues of the metropolis,” he said. “We will resolve water, transport, infrastructural issues of the city.”

Siddiqui said that the party found similar views on many of the issues with the PTI leader.“Its a pleasant surprise for us that we have commonalities. We have an agreement over strong and independent local bodies system,” he said. Siddiqui said that both the parties will help each other to address the reservations over the election results.

“We spoke on re-counting and census in our meeting. Imran Khan has already said that he would address the reservations of people on election results.”

Siddiqui said that the bitter past between the two parties can change into co-operation in future,Earlier, with the struggle to form government that has kicked off subsequent to the election results, Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has become the center of attention of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf hoping for a coalition.

In an attempt to bear their support, with MQM-P’s six MNAs and 16 MPAs, PTI’s Jahangir Tareen has arrived in Karachi to meet with MQM-P convener Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui today.

Talking to reporters at Karachi International Airport, Tareen said that PTI is determined to form Government in centre and Punjab.

Replying to a question regarding rigging in election, he said that Nation voted for change, however Imran Khan has already offered to open constituencies, where ever parties think that there was rigging.

Responding to question about MQM-P, Tareen said that he has come Karachi to invite them to be part of federal government.

As per reports citing the sources, Tareen during his one-day mission to the metropolis will request the MQM-P leaders to accept the offer of coalition to ensure that a PTI leader gets the opposition seat in the Sindh Assembly.Earlier, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader and former Sindh governor Mohammad Zubair met MQM-P leaders to get support from them.

After the meeting, Ex-Governor Sindh Muhammad Zubair and MQM-Pakistan Leaders including Farooq Sattar, Aamir Khan and Faisal Sabzwari rejected the election results and said that it was completely rigged.

Addressing Media in Karachi, Muhammad Zubair said that both PML N and MQM-Pakistan have strong reservations over election 2018. He said that MQM-P is real representative of Karachi. 

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Ex Governor said that the main purpose of election 2018 was to select PTI to rule.

Zubair remarked that the two parties will continue to stay in the touch in the coming few weeks, adding that MQM-Pakistan also has reservations regarding the way elections were conducted.

Regarding the meeting, he shared that the representatives of the two parties discussed the conditions in Sindh especially Karachi alongside the political situation which has emerged following the General Election 2018.

Speaking to the media after the meeting, MQM-P’s Faisal Sabzwari said that failing of RTS system was not any political party’s fault. He said that we have reservations with election 2018, that’s why we raised the voice before anyone else.Replying to a question, Faisal Sabzwari further said that we would meet Jehangir Tareen led PTI delegation and keep all the arguments in Rabitta Committee to finalize.

Moreover, MQM-Pakistan leader Faisal Sabzwari alleged that the Election Commission of Pakistan was involved in the rigging the elections for the first time. “The failure of the result transmission system shows that ECP was unsuccessful in its task.”

The returning officers must recount votes as per the law, he claimed.

“People whose own party wouldn’t vote for them won. How is this possible,” Sabzwari asked.With regards to Form 45, he questioned where was it filled? “Who knows where it was filled as the polling agents weren’t present at the time votes were being counted.”

Form 45 was supposed to be submitted on the day of the election rather than being uploaded on the website after a week, he said.

When asked about the Karachi operation, Zubair clarified that it was held to bring peace to the city. “Karachi operation was not against MQM,” he said.

On the other hand, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) claimed on Monday that it was rapidly moving towards to form the government in Punjab, taking three more independents-elect MPAS and two MNAs into the party’s fold on Monday.

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For a simple majority, one needs the support of at least 149 directly elected MPAs out of 297 general members to form the government in the largest province of the country in terms of population.

In a meeting with PTI chairman Imran Khan, MPAs-elect Saeed Akbar Niwani from PP-90 Bhakkar, Ameer Muhammad Khan from PP-89 Bhakkar and Fida Wattoo from Bahawalnagar announced they would lend their support for the PTI, a press release by the party’s Central Media Department said. Abdul Hai Dasti from PP-270 Muzaffargarh, who had announced his support for PTI on Sunday also met Khan.After the July 25 vote, the PML-N has emerged as the single-largest party in the Punjab Assembly with 129 seats, while the PTI has a tally of 123. The PML-Q has eight MPAs after the joining of an independent member, while the PPP has six. There are 28 independents in all.

Meanwhile, the PTI also managed to garner the support of two independent Members of National Assembly-elects. MNAs-elect Sanaullah Mastikhel from Bhakkar and Ghaffar Wattoo from Bahawalnagar announced joining the party after calling on Imran Khan. PTI’s senior leader Jahangir Khan Tareen was present at the meeting.The PML-N claims support of nine independent candidates but has not made their names public. Its efforts to woo the PPP and PML-Q are proving futile. It had assigned National Assembly former speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq the task of persuading the ‘Q’ leadership to support ‘N’ in the race for the chief minister’s office.

The PTI leadership claims it is closing in on its goal of 149 seats in the Punjab Assembly. It has so far mustered the support of 13 independents, taking its tally to 136 — seven more than the PML-N’s total. Four independents joined the party on Saturday and six others on Sunday.

PTI leadership has now decided to reach out to other smaller groups and independents since the party has already declared that it will not join hands with the PPP and the PML-N. There are 13 independents who have won NA seats, and PTI claims to have the support of at least three of them.

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