Former Defense Minister Khawaja Asif claimed that progress has been made in political negotiations between PMLN and PPP in talks held Saturday evening, but he was unaware of the details of the progress.

PMLN and PPP negotiating committees have held three rounds of talks for the formation of the next federal government and first two rounds ended up inconclusive.

Commenting on the statement of former Commissioner Rawalpindi regarding the alteration of the results Kh Asif said the statement was suspicious and brought under some plan.

Speaking to the media in Sialkot, Khawaja Asif said that only ROs, DRs are given powers during the elections while no responsibility is given to the commissioners during the elections.

“It would be inappropriate to discuss Commissioner Rawalpindi's statement, if the ECP had not formed the committee, it would have commented, but the truth of the press conference of the former commissioner has come out.”

Khawaja Asif said that partnership of political parties is a part of democratic process, political stability is inevitable for economic stability and claimed progress was made in political negotiations yesterday evening.

He said that PML-N has a simple majority in Punjab, the people of Karachi have given mandate to MQM. “It is clear that PML-N, PP, MQM will form a joint government,” he said.

Asif said Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman’s alliance is with those who benefited from fraud in KP, adding that, the truth of the press conference of the former commissioner has come out now.

The Election Commission Pakistan (ECP) has formed a committee on the statement of the former commissioner.

“Partnership of political parties is a part of democratic process,” he said.

“Politicians should rise above personal interests and sacrifice for the people,” Khawaja Asif commented.