LAHORE: The PMLN and the PPP have agreed to form a coalition government in the Centre and Punjab, it is learnt after PMLN leader Shehbaz Sharif met PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto and former president Asif Ali Zardari and invited them to work together for Pakistan.

Shehbaz met the PPP top leaders at the residence of Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi. Party sources said Shehbaz discussed the future government formation with Zardari and also conveyed him Nawaz Sharif’s message. Shehbaz asked the two PPP leaders to sit with the PMLN leadership for political and economic stability in Pakistan.

Sources claimed that Zardari and Shehbaz agreed to form a government in Punjab and at the centre and both the parties will present their own views in the next meeting and finalize all matters regarding the power-sharing formula as to who will assume which office and where with mutual consultation. The meeting lasted 45 minutes.

PMLN Quaid and former prime minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Friday invited all the political parties to form a coalition government to save the country.