PML-N, PPP reluctant to back next JUI-F move.

Byline: Amjad Mahmood

LAHORE -- The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan Peoples Party seem to be reluctant to join the next possible move of Maulana Fazlur Rehman who is currently leading a sit-in in Islamabad as both have entrusted their respective central bodies to come up with a 'well-thought out' decision.

Elders of the PML-N are meeting at Model Town residence of party president Shahbaz Sharif here on Monday (today) to discuss the national political scene and the multiparty conference Maulana Fazl's JUI-F is going to hold on the sit-in issue, while PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari stated in Bahawalpur that only the CEC will take a decision on it.

Those being invited to the Model Town consultation included members of the PML-N's core parliamentary group in the National Assembly as well as some constituents of the central executive committee. The participants will also be conveyed instructions given by their supreme leader Nawaz Sharif.

'Party president Shahbaz Sharif has been meeting the core group almost on a daily basis since development of the present political scenario. One of the meetings was held even today (Sunday). But, the difference in Monday's sitting is that some members of the CEC will also be part of it,' a senior party official told Dawn.

The party was unlikely to give a go ahead for joining the sit-in, the official said, arguing it would further advance the 'bad' precedent set by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf to try ousting an elected government through street power.

'What they (PTI) did to our government calls for a tit-for-tat response. But we don't want to cement a bad precedent particularly when we as the government in-waiting see ourselves the only option for the people due to failure of the PTI in resolving the problems being faced by the...