the deal between the two parties means shehbaz sharif is likely to be prime minister for a second timearasan ethirajan, told me more about that coalition deal. both of these main political parties in pakistan have been negotiating for the past ten days to reach a deal on forming a coalition government after the elections on the 8th of february resulted in a hung assembly. basically, nobody got a majority. according to this deal, shehbaz sharif, the younger brother of the former president, will be the prime minister candidate and asif ali zardari, one of the senior leaders of the pakistan people's party, will become president. this is all happening at a time when supporters of the former prime minister imran khan have been alleging a massive state state staged electoral fraud. alleging a massive state state staged electoralfraud. they want alleging a massive state state staged electoral fraud. they want a majority of seats. they say that they won even two thirds of the majority but the government and election commission strongly denied these accusations of vote tampering. so that leaves

the deal between the two parties means shehbaz sharif is likely to be prime minister for a second timeese two parties have a long history of building cases against each other, corruption cases that they have been calling politically motivated but in the last few years we have seen there have been sitting together for example. these two parties of these were to measured parties to oust a former minister imran khan from his office in 2022. then for the next two years they successfully ruled the country and now once again there is this alliance. running the government will not be easy for pakistan because the last two years there has been a political turmoil and there is economic instability, pakistan's economy has been on the verge of default and there is a rising internal security situation, there have been terrorist attacks across the country and his other challenges that any coalition that forms the government in pakistan will face and is not easy to tackle. and you can read more of farhat�*s analysis on this story online. head to our website, bbc.com/news or the bbc news app, around

the pmln, which is former prime minister in about sharif's party in shehbaz, sharif was actually theter of this country with barstool years and the party of allowed bhutto-zardari which is the son of slain phone branded disturbing as you put to death, come out and said that they will support the pmln scattered it of for a prime minister. so that's the two major parties aside from the pti, but they've also allied with four other major bodies. so they've come confidently got enough seats now to form that government. so we just have to wait and see what happens with the pti and with the independent candidates affiliated with them. >> john, in the run-up to this election, there was a lot of violence, bombings and some candidates who killed at least one so with this coalition government coming to power, is expected, bring some stability, or can they do that without the support of the pti >> well, john, i think that is something that is of concern to domestic analysts as well as international observers. is that pakistan, along with the militant crisis that's brewing in this country, has a

so-called full votes, despite the many advertisements that have a lot of zardari hamashmi , a lot of shehbaz sharif to talk to the so-called mr. hashmi . thank you very much. we will see about the parliamentary elections in pakistan, mrs. hajipour is at your service. shani, let's go to the news at 7 am. in the name of god. hello dear viewers. good morning , welcome to 7 am news. syrian air defense countered the attacks of the zionist regime in the suburbs of damascus in these two attacks. by entering syria from the occupied golan side , they targeted positions in the dimas area in the suburbs of damascus . the syrian air defense forces also shot down these two drones in the west of damascus. also , it is said that the planes belonging to the american army bombed the positions of the syrian army near the syrian-iraq border, west of bokmal, in the eastern suburbs of deir wozor, in eastern syria. the zionist regime's attack on several areas in southern lebanon, hezbollah announced that two resistance fighters were martyred in these attacks. the warplanes of the occupying jabshid settlement destroyed b

but the videos they released last night showed a very warm welcome between the two sides — shehbaz sharifne another at the ppp's headquarters to be able to have these discussions. so, we are waiting to see whether they have come up with a solution and whether they are going to form a government. 0n the other hand, of course, we are also waiting to hear what will happen with imran khan's backed candidates. now, they have obviously got the majority. they have got 93 out of 101 of the independent seats were backed by imran khan supporters, according to our bbc analysis. but the big question is, what do they do now? so, independents, they are running as independents because in the weeks running up to this election, the electoral commission here in pakistan decided not to recognise them because they said that there were issues with the way they had held their own internal party vote and that meant that all of the candidates had to run as independents, not as a party. that now presents a new problem here, because do they stay as independents? which might mean they have issues with sort of party

prime ministerial role also for the second time — from the centre right, pakistan muslim league's shehbaz sharifger brother of former prime minister nawaz sharif. bbc urdu's farhat javed, has been following the election closely and had this update on the late night announcement. it was sort of expected that soon there would be some announcement from any of three major parties in pakistan. and what we saw today in a late night press conference, pakistan's people's party and nawaz sharif, pml—n and muslim league—nawaz they announced that they are going to form a coalition government. there has been quite a lot of back and forth between these two parties before they reached a power—sharing formula. and as you just mentioned, that one party is getting the presidency seat and the other one is going to be the prime minister. but then that is not it. there are many other federal ministries, for example, and many other key positions which are going to be distributed between the two parties that we would come to know in the coming days. and also there would be a vote in the parliament for the selection o

and shehbaz sharif, the younger brother of former prime minister nawaz sharif, will be the coalition�ds days of uncertainty following the february 8th vote, in which candidates, backed by the party of former prime minister, imran khan, won the largest number of seats in parliament. but they did not win enough for an outright majority. farhat javed with bbc urdu has more. these two parties have a long history of building cases against each other, corruption cases that they have been calling politically motivated but in the last few years we have seen there have been sitting together for example. these two parties of these were to measured parties to oust a former minister imran khan from his office in 2022. then for the next two years they successfully ruled the country and now once again there is this alliance. running the government will not be easy for pakistan because the last two years there has been a political turmoil and there is economic instability, pakistan's economy has been on the verge of default and there is a rising internal security situation, there have been terrorist

that at the moment the pmln and ppp, or for the major parties of this country are happy with shehbaz sharif being the prime minister of pakistan. >> rosemary sophia saifi, joining us live from islamabad. many thanks. >> thank you for joining us. i'm rosemary church, right. international and max viewers, world sport is coming up next. and for those of you here in the united states and in canada, i'll be back with more cnn newsroom yes, to miami to stay with us >> you tried vaping to quit smoking. it might feel like progress, but with three times more nicotine than a pack of cigarettes, apes increased craig trapping you and in and i was craving loop nuclear. it reduces cravings until they're gone for good >> some people just know that the best rate for you the rate based on you with asd, not one based on paul >> you don't want arrive with sarah next day anyway? can you don't want to write based on ben, he's got some important business to take care of why would you pay rate based on anyone else with asd you're connected to a rate based on you the car is a car >> is a spot in office >> hi. >> h

so we're just going to have to wait and see it's likely that shehbaz sharif, the candidate for pln the prime minister's candidate for pmn, the mln, the former prime minister for the bus. do yours is anticipated to be the incoming prime minister, john >> okay so will this now as the question of bringing stability back to pakistan, which has been rocked by violence over the last couple of weeks, especially the last couple of weeks in the leadup to these questions yes, definitely. >> there's been huge spike in medicine to across pakistan all through last year and into this year as well. and along with that, there's a lot of concern internationally domestically about the economic crisis plaguing the country. there has been record inflation and that's a dawn that shebaa shry for example, took in which he said that they were making this decision for the sake of the country, the decision to form the coalition with the ppp, which is the party of former former foreign minister. but i will put us at the pti has been at the receiving end often envoy thank crackdown, which is why they ran is indep