LAHORE/ISLAMABAD (PEN): Senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders have voiced against forming a government in the Centre, saying that the party has “no desire to decorate this crown of thorns on its head”, The News reported Saturday.
Taking to X, Khawaja Saad Rafique said that the formation of the federal government was the joint responsibility of all the parties in the parliament, not the PML-N.
Calling on the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed candidates, who emerged victorious in the February 8 elections, Rafique wrote: “Independent members supported by PTI should take the initiative, form a joint central government with the PPP.”
He said no political party had a clear-cut majority and the “PML-N has no desire to decorate this crown of thorns on its head”.
Javed Latif, another PML-N stalwart from Sheikhupura, said that he hopes that the PML-N decides that the party, which emerged victorious with the leading number of seats, should be given a chance to form the government.
“The plan to create chaos in the country may fail because of this,” he said, adding that “the day PML-N makes this decision, I will reveal for whom the rigging was done and the mastermind behind February 8 [polls]”.
