Zardari likely to visit Quetta today as PPP seeks CM slot

• PPP consulting with PML-N, BAP to form coalition govt.
• PML-N has 10 seats, BAP four in Balochistan Assembly. 
• Zardari seeks Balochistan's CM slot for his party. 

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari is expected to visit Quetta today in a bid to woo other political parties to form government in Balochistan after it emerged as a major party in the province, The News reported.

The PPP and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) have clinched 11 provincial assembly seats each in Balochistan. 

Meanwhile, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) won 10 seats, independents six, Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) four, National Party three, Awami National Party (ANP) two, Balochistan National Party (BNP), BNP-Awami, Haq Do Tehreek Balochistan and Jamaat-e-Islami have one seat each. 

Sources said Zardari would meet the party’s newly-elected members of the provincial assembly (MPAs), adding that the independents were also in contact with the PPP. 

They said the PPP was consulting with the PML-N and BAP to form a coalition government with the Zardari-led party seeking the chief minister's seat in the province. 

On January 8, several political leaders from Balochistan decided to join the PPP after holding a meeting with Zardari at the Bilawal House in Karachi. 

Former senator Sardar Fateh Muhammad Hassani, Nawabzada Gazin Marri and Tahir Mahmood, coordinator of the chief minister of Balochistan Nawabzada Jamal Raisani and Mir Fareed Raisani had joined the PPP.

PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on February 10 said that no government could be formed in the Centre, Punjab and Balochistan without the inclusion of his party.