Islamabad—Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf and Awami National Party are likely to form an alliance in the coming elections to enhance their vote-bank and to get maximum seats in the National and Pro-vincial Assemblies, sources told.
The PTI’s growing influence in the Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa Province and Pakistan People Party’s strategy to further fortify its alliance with MQM, particularly in Karachi, can motivate the Awami National Party to form an alliance with the PTI, said sources.
They said that the recent big rally of Pakistan Te-hrik-e-Insaf at gateway to South Waziristan has brightened the chances of the formation of an alliance between the PTI and ANP.
The rally that attracted an unprecedented support from thousands of the people, especially the young-sters of the KPK also disappointed some parties in the KPK especially both the factions of Jamiat-e-Ulema-i-Islam, who can face a blow in the upcom-ing elections in case the PTI and ANP contested elections on a joint platform, sources said.
Despite Taliban’s threat to target the rally of Imran Khan, thousands of the supporters of PTI, its leaders and workers participated in the rally that reflected the deepening penetration of the PTI in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, sources said.
According to political analysts, PTI’s rally has ele-vated the graph of popularity of PTI and image of Imran Khan in the eyes of the general public be-cause, so far, none of the big parties like the PPP, PML(N), PML(Q), ANP, MQM dared to enter Wa-ziristan to stage a big rally against the drone attacks.
Top leadership of Pakistan Peoples Party is making hectic efforts to keep its coalition intact with the MQM and to form some kind of alliance in the coming elections with the aim to win more seats and form the next government. PPP’s leadership believes that its alliance with MQM could help the party to get more seats in Karachi and form the next government with the support of MQM and some other coalition partners.
Keeping in view this political mileage, the PPP leadership had even accepted one of the toughest demands of the MQM relating to the Sindh Local Government Ordinance that perturbed the PPP hawks and, workers in Sindh, said sources.
This strategy of the PPP leadership, on the one hand, had shocked the PPP stalwarts and created frustration in the party’s ranks while on the other, it could motivate the Awami National Party to join hands with PTI in the coming elections, said sources.
