Rehbar panel to contact govt allies for 'in-house change'.

Byline: Zulqernain Tahir

LAHORE -- The opposition's Rehbar Committee has decided in principle to establish contacts with the PTI government's coalition partners in the coming week to kick start its efforts for an 'in-house change'.

'The Rehbar Committee will start holding meetings with the allied parties of the government from next month to find out solution to the prevailing crises especially diplomatic and economic. Since the PTI government has a thin margin (in the National Assembly) its coalition partners (PML-Q, MQM and BNP-M) will have to decide whether they should continue providing support to the Imran Khan dispensation that plunged the country into a host of crises or play their role in steering Pakistan out of the quagmire,' PML-N secretary general Ahsan Iqbal told Dawn on Saturday.

To a question whether the opposition was optimistic about an in-house change, Mr Iqbal, who is also a member of the Rehbar Committee, said: 'The government is so afraid of any such move that whosoever in the opposition speaks against it and is active in this respect is targeted by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) at its (government) behest. Earlier, the NAB had summoned Rehbar Committee...