PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said that a new political party would be formed in Pakistan amid the prevailing situation.

“This is a reality that amid today’s situation in Pakistan an effective political party will be formed,” he said in an interview with Geo News show Capital Talk which was aired on Tuesday. “Only time will tell who will form the party.”

Abbasi had hinted at such a possibility during an interview with Aaj News. He wondered if the solution to the country’s problems was making a political party, so he would form a one.

In the recent past, Abbasi, along with Miftah Ismail and Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, has been conducting events in universities under the title ‘Reimagining Pakistan’.

Khokhar quit the PPP in 2022 as further continuing with the PPP “was compromising on my self-respect”.

Abbasi was booted from PML-N’s top echelons as the party announced the results of the intra-party elections on June 16, 2023. “Those people, from within the party, who are talking against Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, and pulling his legs, have no right to stay in the party,” PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif said at the party’s general council meeting on Friday.

“They have no right to remain in the party. [He] is working round the clock,” the party president said and claimed that the finance czar despite not caring for his health Dar was being criticised.

On Tuesday, Abbasi admitted that a discussion on the new political party was part of the debate.

When asked, he said it was not necessary that he would be part of the new party as it was important that he was convinced first.

The former prime minister went on to add that the new party’s purpose should not be power, which is got in Pakistan “by other means”.

When asked whether the new party would be “labelled” in Pakistan like the new parties by Jehangir Tareen and Pervez Khattak, Abbasi replied any new party should have a purpose.

He lamented that no party could deliver over the past three years.

“You should be a party. If you like in the past have to make compromise and come to power then it will have no impact,” he said and hoped that all major parties would sit together for the country.