Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khawaja Saad Rafique on Friday stated that reconciliatory efforts with Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan were making progress before, they failed. Rafique took to twitter today and expressed regret at the failure of reconciliation talks with Nisar - who had been associated with the party for over three decades.
"We did not want the talks to fail but this is how it is now," the PML-N leader wrote. Earlier on June 11, disgruntled party leader of PML-N and former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan announced that he would contest the general election 2018 as an independent candidate.
"The party [PML-N] had given tickets to political orphans," Nisar said, adding, "There are 10 faults in the PTI but 100 in the PML-N."
He said it is time for him to work even harder, as he would be contesting the election as an independent candidate. The PML-N stalwart used the occasion to target his party's leadership, saying, "These Sharifs will not able to show their faces anywhere if I open my mouth." He suggested that he had been keeping mum on matters he did not disclose because of his 34-year association with the Sharif brothers.