Pakistan election: PTI joins religious parties, PPP backs rival PMLN
Two leading parties announce separate coalition plans to help secure a majority needed after Pakistan’s contested polls.
![PTI has announced it will not enter into any coalition with PMLN, PPP and MQM to form government after the February 8 election. [Sohail Shahzad/EPA]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/12022455-1707836034.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
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Two leading parties announce separate coalition plans to help secure a majority needed after Pakistan’s contested polls.
![Members of the polling staff set up a polling station in a school building for the February 8 parliamentary elections, in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, February 7, 2024 [Fareed Khan/AP Photo]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AP24038500513569-1707357514.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
![Pakistan is set to hold its general election on February 8. [Shahzaib Akber/EPA]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/11922882-1704984623.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
![Supporters of major opposition political parties including Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) gather during an anti-government rally in Karachi [Shahzaib Akber/EPA]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/h_56432099.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
![The cases against Zardari, left, and Sharif, right, came ahead of their political alliance planning an anti-government rally [File: AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/000_Del6222381.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
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