KARACHI, NOV 08 (DNA) – Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQMP) and Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) have agreed to form a political alliance on Wednesday for upcoming elections in 2018.

Leaders of PSP and MQMP, Mustafa Kamal and Dr Farooq Sattar addressed a joint press conference in Karachi today and laid bare details of the decision.

While talking to the media, Dr Sattar said that the key purpose of the joint press conference is to check the division of vote bank of both the parties in Sindh. Policies that aim to curb violence and restore peace are to be stressed in the province, he said.

MQMP chief said that talks were underway between the two parties for quite some time to solve the issues faced by the people through a political alliance.

Earlier in the day, MQMP chief and Mustafa Kamal convened separate meetings with top brass of individual parties to take the members in confidence.

In a brief media talk before presiding over the meeting, Dr Sattar said that the party leadership wishes to serve the people of the province in a better way. He said that members of MQMP reserve a political ideology and that the party stands for a movement.

PSP chief Mustafa Kamal was thrown questions at by media personnel to which he responded by saying that the lawmakers would lay bare details of the meeting in a shortwhile.

Dr Sattar left for Karachi Press Club to address the press conference after chairing an MQMP meeting for over two hours.