ISLAMABAD(PTI);Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister, Moeen Qureshi has disclosed that he wanted former prime ministers, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif to join hands and form a coalition government after the October general elections.
Bhutto and Sharif would work together for the nation’s prosperity; he said adding that such a decision would be in the best interest of the country. At the Prime Minister’s house on Sept.18, Qureshi said that he had Separate discussions with Bhutto and Sharif about the elections and their results. There was not much difference of opinion between leaders of MS Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party and Sharif’s faction of Pakistan Muslim League on basic issues, he added, Even as Pakistan geared up for the Oct.6 & 9 polls to the national and four provincial assemblies, Bhutto and Sharif traded charges against each other of financial mismanagement and political opportunism. In his election meetings, Sharif has appealed to the people to reject the “Bhutto family rule’ and has accused Ms. Bhutto of joining hands with the former president, Ghulam Ishaq Khan to oust his democratically elected government On the other hand, Bhutto has alleged that Sharif was pumping drug money into politics to purchase loyalties of his opponents and claimed that a ‘mafia’ has set up a ‘secret fund’ of Rs two billion to help Sharif win the elections.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 24, 1993
