Source: Tehran Times

ISLAMABAD (The News) — Veteran Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani, who has pulled away from the electronic media glare, is going to carry the day by becoming the nominee of the party for the prime minister, informed PPP and Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) leaders say.

“PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has told Gillani that he will be the final choice on the conclusion of his ongoing consultations with the MNAs-elect in groups,” a senior party leader told The News.

Echoing the same theme, a prominent PML-N leader, currently engaged in crucial consultations with the PPP as part of his party’s negotiating team, said according to his reckoning, the former National Assembly speaker was going to ultimately win the nomination by Zardari.

Another PPP leader said Gillani had been asked to stay low in the current hullabaloo so that he did not embroil himself in controversies unnecessarily.

After saying that there is a very short distance between the Prime Minister House and the Adiala Jail (Rawalpindi) a few days back, Gillani has not been active, which has made many to believe that he has opted out of the prime minister’s race.

Gillani suffered a lot because of his imprisonment on a frivolous charge of recruiting people in the National Assembly Secretariat when he was its speaker.

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Tags: Election, National Assembly, PML-N, PPP, Prime Minister, Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani