Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan-Noorani (JUP-N) president Sahibzada Abul Khair Mohammad Zubair has said he agreed on seat adjustment with the PPP for the Feb 8 elections in Sindh — particularly in Hyderabad — and Punjab after he failed to cobble together an alliance of like-minded religious parties.

He was speaking at a press conference along with PPP leader Sharjeel Inam Memon at the farmhouse of Waseem Rajput, a PPP candidate for NA-220, to formally announce the retirement of the JUP-N candidates, including himself, in favour of the PPP’s aspirants. Waseem Rajput, Ajiz Dhamra and Fareed Qureshi were present on the occasion.

Zubair said he, his candidates — including Rehman Rajput, Nazim Arain, Syed Mohammad Hassan and Mahmood Ahmed Qadri and others — would retire in favour of PPP’s candidates on NA-219 (Latifabad) and NA-220 (City) and their allies on provincial seats. He said he had tried to form an alliance of religious parties as a leader of Milli Yakjehati Council (MYC), but he did not get a positive response.

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