A big split is expected in the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Sindh as Syed Ghous Ali Shah and his supporters did not participate in any of the activities of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif while in Karachi. Shah started talks with the PML-Q and a new party might formed by Shah Mehmood Qureshi.
During his visit, Shahbaz met senior journalists, writers, intellectuals members of the business community, and condoled with the relatives of those party workers who had fallen prey to targeted killings. In these all activities, the most senior most leader of the PML-N, Shah and his group remained absent. Even the PML-N womens wing was out of the scene.
However, Shah’s opponent group remained very active during Shahbaz’s visit.The gravity of the issue was felt when during a press conference, Shahbaz was asked about the PML-N leadership’s differences with its Sindh chapter. In response, the chief minister told the questioner that it needed to be ascertained “who has put the question in your mouth”.
Shah and his supporters developed serious differences with the party leadership when he was made senior vice president of the party but was not made the PML-N Sindh president.
Sources said the PML-N leadership decided not to listen to Shah.
Insiders said Shah had indirectly started negotiations with Qureshi as well had contacted the PML-Q leadership.
If the negotiations remain successful, a large number of PML-N Sindh members might leave the party.
