President Asif Ali Zardari has tasked Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi to facilitate mediation between the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and its ally, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). Naqvi will meet Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif tomorrow (Wednesday), where he will request that the premier play a role in calming tensions between the two parties. The rift between PML-N and PPP intensified a day earlier when PPP leader Raja Pervaiz Ashraf walked out of the National Assembly session, saying that his party would not participate in the proceedings until they received a clarification over the Punjab ministers’ remarks about Sindh.
