SUKKUR, Sept 27: The Sindh Democratic Alliance chief Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh has predicted that his party would form the next Sindh government.

He was taking to this scribe on telephone from Shikarpur on Friday.

He said that the SDA would talk to the like-minded political parties, including the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, to form government in Sindh after the elections.

Shaikh disclosed that he was holding negotiations with the Pakistan Muslim League (F) and the MQM leadership for putting up one candidate on NA- 198 (Sukkur) against PPP candidate Khursheed Ahmed Shah.

He said that he was also holding negotiations with the parties for seat adjustment in other constituencies of Sindh against the PPP candidates.

On the charges of pre-poll rigging in Sindh for the benefit of the SDA candidates, he claimed that they were absurd charges rather his party had suffered due to the recent administrative changes.

He upheld the government decision of reinserting the article 58(2) b of the Constitution, saying that it would create a balance of power between prime minister and president.

MMA: The Tanzim Islami Pakistan (TIP), Sukkur, has decided to support the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal candidates of Sukkur district for the general elections.

This was announced at a joint meeting of the MMA and the TIP held at the Ahl-i-Hadis Mosque, Marich Bazaar here on Friday.

The TIP ameer, Ghulam Mohammad Soomro, while announcing the decision, directed the activists of his organization to work for the success of the MMA candidates.

The MMA candidate from NA-198 (Sukkur) and chief of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (S), Sindh, Maulana Asad Thanvi, said that the MMA had achieved a major success by bringing six religious parties on one platform.