PPP to support PML-N in upcoming by-elections on 20 Punjab Assembly seats.

LAHORE -- The PPP on Wednesday announced that the party would support PML-N's candidates who will take part in the upcoming by-elections on the 20 vacant seats of the Punjab Assembly.

The seats had fallen vacant after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had de-seated PTI's dissident lawmakers for voting against party policy.

The polling will take place on July 17, as per the ECP schedule that was issued on May 26. Meanwhile, the nomination papers for the by-elections can be submitted from June 4 to 7 and this will be followed by the returning officers carrying out scrutiny of the nomination papers till June 11. However, the appeals against the returning officers' decisions can be filed till June 15.

"In view of the country's interest, the PPP has decided to support the PML-N's candidate for all the 20 vacant seats," PPP provincial minister Hassan Murtaza said while addressing a joint press conference flanked by PML-N's Attaullah Tarar and Malik Ahmad Khan.

Both the parties, however, will remain political...