Nisar meets Mushahid

LAHORE-The PML (N) has opened up back-door channels with PML (Q) to explore the possibility of fielding a consensus candidate against PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari in the Presidential elections.

Sources privy to the latest developments in the political arena, revealed that the PML leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan met PML (Q) Secretary General Mushahid Hussain Syed in Islamabad on Monday night to discuss the prospects of cooperation in the Presidential elections.

The sources disclosed that cooperation on this count could lead to wider cooperation between the two parties and even alliance in days to come.  The meeting took place hours after the PML (N) top leader announced his separation from the ruling alliance and decision to sit in the Opposition.