PTI constitutes committee headed by Shah Mahmood Qureshi for seat adjustment with PML-Q

LAHORE, Dec 19 (SABAH): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday formed a three-member committee to discuss seat adjustment with the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) for the upcoming elections.

The committee would be headed by PTI Vice President Shah Mahmood Qureshi and would include senior vice president Fawad Chaudhry and former defence minister Pervez Khan Khattak.

Fawad Chaudhry confirmed that party Chairman Imran Khan formed the committee for seat-adjustment negotiations and to look into issues of electoral adjustment. The first meeting of the committee was convened on the other day.

According to the media reports, PML-Q agreed to dissolve the Punjab Assembly under the condition that it will receive 25 to 30 provincial seats in South Punjab, Gujarat Division and Sialkot in the next general elections.

A day earlier, Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif held a meeting with PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat following Imran Khan’s announcement of December 23 as the date for his extreme measure to dissolve Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) assemblies to force fresh general elections in the country.

The ruling coalition tasked Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain with preventing the dissolution of the Punjab Assembly by his cousin and fellow PML-Q leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi.