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Nawaz Sharif and Bilawal Bhutto’s parties in Pakistan have reached a deal to form a government.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr Bhutto’s PPP said it would help Mr Sharif’s PML-N elect a prime minister after last week’s election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The two parties were previously in a coalition that ousted Imran Khan from power in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This time, independent candidates backed by his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party unexpectedly won the most seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari told a press conference that although his party and PML-N had contested elections against each other, they had come together in the interests of the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It is not necessary that [we fight] forever,” Mr Zardari said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The PML-N said in a statement that both parties had agreed to cooperate in the interests of political stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The results – in which independents backed by the PTI took 93 out of 266 directly elected seats – had left voters uncertain about which parties would form the next government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr Sharif’s PML-N won 75 seats while Mr Bhutto’s PPP came third with 54 seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, parties will be allocated more seats from the 70 reserved for women and non-Muslims. These additional seats are not available to independent candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to PML-N official Marriyum Aurangzeb, party leader Mr Sharif plans to nominate his brother Shehbaz to be prime minister. Both men have previously served as prime minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While Mr Bhutto says his party will help elect a PML-N prime minister, he earlier said it would not take any cabinet positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Imran Khan and his party have continued to emphasise that they believe the elections were rigged against them and plan to challenge the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said: “I warn against the misadventure of forming a government with stolen votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Such daylight robbery will not only be a disrespect to the citizens but will also push the country’s economy further into a downward spiral.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC News: Nawaz Sharif and Bilawal Bhutto’s parties in Pakistan have reached a deal to form a government. Mr Bhutto’s PPP said it would help Mr Sharif’s PML-N elect a prime minister after last week’s election. The two parties were previously in a coalition that ousted Imran Khan from power in 2022. This time, independent candidates backed by his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party unexpectedly won the most seats. PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari told a press conference that although his party and PML-N had contested elections against each other, they had come together in the interests of the nation. “It… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37590,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37588\/revisions\/37590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}