Refuting allegations of former PPP foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, PPP Information Secretary Qamar Zaman Kaira on Tuesday said differences of the former foreign minister with the party and its leadership were not political, but personal and he would have been in the party today had he been made the Minister for Foreign Affairs per his desire.
“Why did Qureshi not raise objections when he was the foreign minister? Why did he not say that the party and its leadership were deviating from the legacy and vision of Benazir Bhutto? He turned against the party and its leadership when he was not made the foreign minister.
He parted ways for personal reasons, not on account of political differences,” Kaira said during a press conference along with Federal Minister for Textiles Makhdoom Shahabuddin.
Qureshi stands alone, says Warraich: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Punjab president Imtiaz Safdar Warriach said Shah Mahmood Qureshi does not have the support of other parliamentarians and stands alone. Addressing a press conference at the Lahore Press Club on Tuesday, he said the proof was that no other lawmaker had resigned with him.