Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman and former Pakistan President Asif Zardari will be the candidate of the allied parties in the presidential election on March 9, Sharif said while speaking at a dinner hosted in honour of the allied parties’ leaders. The coalition government secured two-thirds of the votes in the recent general elections and it would be reflected during the presidential election, he added. Shehbaz Sharif, expressing deep concern over the economy’s poor indicators, said that the circular debt related to gas and electricity amounts to five trillion rupees. In a similar vein, Pakistan International Airlines owes 825 billion rupees and electricity theft has reached 500 billion rupees, according to ARY News.