Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif has announced that his party will decide about the alliance with other parties, candidates of prime minister and Punjab chief minister after a meeting and consultation with other democratic forces.
He told reporters at his Model Town home that the central working committee and parliamentary party meeting would be held on Thursday in Islamabad in which his party was expected to map out a future line of action.
He said he would meet Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Zardari and other leaders to discuss the post-election situation and to adopt a future course of action. He said his party was ready to work with the PPP and the Awami National Party (ANP).
He said the PPP was the single largest party in the National Assembly. "We accept their right of forming a government," he said. He said there was consensus between his party and the PPP. "Both parties also want to end the army's role in the country's political affairs," he added.
Sharif also said if both the PPP and the PML-N were sincere with the 1973 Constitution, the decision on restoration of judiciary would not be difficult one. He said his agenda was to put an end to dictatorship and its signs had started appearing.
He claimed that independent assembly members would support his party to form a government in Punjab. He said President Pervez Musharraf should step down and that his party was trying to help the country resolve her crises with the co-operation of other democratic forces.