PML‑N and PPP Revive Coordination Committee but Talks Yield No Breakthrough

The meeting aims to ease coalition strain from disputed regional elections as well as governance failures, alongside slow implementation of prior agreements.

Overview

Senior leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League‑Nawaz and the Pakistan Peoples Party met at Governor House in Lahore on Saturday to revive the formal coordination committee after a long gap.
The two sides offered sharply different public accounts of the session, with PML‑N calling the talks constructive and PPP describing them as tense and inconclusive.
PPP delegates listed concrete grievances including alleged rigging in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, runaway inflation, rising fuel prices, a farming crisis, load‑shedding and delayed local government polls.
PML‑N officials said previous decisions had been implemented in part and that PPP nominees were being included in district development committees, while PPP attendees said many promises remain unfulfilled.
Both parties pledged to keep meeting regularly and to resolve disputes through consultation, a move meant to protect coalition stability and to manage political costs for PPP in the provinces.