Pakistan Set to Get New Government as Bhutto’s PPP Indicates Support to Sharif’s Party
The Pakistan Peoples Party indicated it would support former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s party to form a minority government,
But the conditions to join forces did not bode well for a stable or strong administration in the world’s second-largest Muslim country, especially with PPP saying it would not join the government.
Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is the largest recognised party with 80 seats and PPP is second with 54. Together, they have enough for a simple majority in the 264-seat legislature