Fissures emerge in PPP, PML-N strategies to overthrow govt.

ISLAMABAD -- Differences in approach between the PPP and PML-N to oust the incumbent government have started to show more prominently, after PML-N Secretary-General Ahsan Iqbal seemed to disagree a no-confidence motion is the way to go.

During a press conference on Saturday, a day after PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari recommended that the Opposition table a no-confidence motion in the parliament, Iqbal said that this is an "old recommendation" and the tactic did not work during Senate elections.

He did however invite Bilawal to share any numbers he may have which could lead to a successful vote.

"This is a PPP recommendation, an old one [...] but where the PML-N is concerned, we believe that if Bilawal Bhutto sahab has such numbers, then he may definitely share them with us if he believes can help the Opposition table a no-confidence motion.

"In the Senate (polls), we saw that despite having the numbers, we did not succeed in such a vote," Iqbal said.

The PML-N secretary-general said there is "only one way" the Opposition must take, and that is a "decisive long march" against the government.

He said March is an ideal month for the march.

Iqbal said that the government brings up issues like Panama and Broadsheet to divert attention.

"After crying Panama, Panama they came into power through election rigging, and now they want to divert attention from their failures by raising a hue and cry about Broadsheet," he said.

Referring to Minister for Interior Sheikh Rasheed's categorisation of the matter as "Panama 2", he said that the Panama Papers case - that led to the disqualification of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif - was a "fraud" and "so is Broadsheet".

He said the government is "hiding the true facts" behind the Broadsheet scandal.

Iqbal said that if the government is serious about the investigation of Broadsheet, it should have contacted...