Former President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday, held a press conference in which he criticized Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif calling his policies “narrow minded.”
Zardari spoke about the CPEC project saying that the “wounds of the Balochistan have not been healed to this day” and that no development had taken place in the country’s largest province since the PPP had left office in 2013. Zardari lamented the actions of the PML-N government, saying the PPP plan for CPEC had included development projects for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan which the current government had ignore.
The PPP chairman also discussed party matters with the media saying that the prospects of former Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza rejoining the PPP were bleak to say the least. Not elaborating much on the matter, Zardari said decisions regarding who joins the party were not taken exclusively by him. He did however say there that “some friends are tested during bad times while others are tested during better times.”
The topic of the PSL final being held in Lahore also came up, and when journalists asked the former President whether he would be attending the final of the cricket league, Zardari quipped that cricket was not his sport of choice. However he did say that hosting the final in Lahore was a safety risk and that the Prime Minister’s main concern was to flex his political muscles by making Lahore’s security situation seem better than it was in reality.
On the topic of Ihsanullah Marwat, the former President said that the People’s party had a good working relationship with Marwat but that the rumours regarding him joining the PPP were false.