Senate election: Gilani contacts Mengal, likely to meet Shahbaz in jail today

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has started to make contacts with allied parties of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) as his election campaign for the upcoming Senate election.

Yusuf Gilani is also scheduled to hold a meeting with the PML-N President and Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif in jail today (Wednesday). While on Tuesday, Gilani held telephonic contact with the chief of BNP (Mengal) Sardar Akhtar Mengal, who was currently in Dubai, and discussed the current political situation of the country and consultation on the upcoming Senate elections. Gilani, who is the joint candidate of PDM, invited him on the dinner he is hosting for the parliamentarians and heads of the PDM on March 2 in Islamabad.