KARACHI – Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) chief Pir Pagara has given his thumbs up to Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) estranged leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi becoming the next prime minister of Pakistan.
“I foresee Shah Mahmood Qureshi as the next prime minister of the country,” Pagara said at a crowded press conference held after the meeting on Sunday at the Kingri House between the two leaders. Political pundits had attached much significance to the meeting but Qureshi claimed that the reunion was merely a “family meeting” and not political, and was held because Pagara had praised his family.
Yet, there was a political statement from Pagara: “If one Makhdoom can become the premier, there is no reason why another could not,” he said, adding that the status of Qureshi’s family was higher than that of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
