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.
Its good for both Qureshi & PPPP that they have chosen their path.
Mr Kaira,
You are not telling us the whole truth.
It would have been reasonable for Mr Qureshi to continue as Foreign Minister in the wake of a cabinet reshuffle. This was especially true in the circumstances leading up to this reshuffle.
There was pressure from abroad to grant diplomatic immunity to Raymond Davis. There were individuals in key position in the cabinet who were willing to go as far as to take upon themselves to make retrospective amendments in the sensitive documents to grant Raymond Davis the status that would have given him the immunity that he needed
Shah Mahmood Qureshi (SMQ) annoyed one man by refusing what was being expected of him. US foreign secretary snubbed the foreign minister of Pakistan by refusing to meet him in a prescheduled meeting in Rome.
SMQ reappraised his old association and finally left those political affiliations. He did right and we respect him for that.
Having said what I wanted to say, may I ask you what a decent man like you doing by staying with these unsavoury characters?
Many thanks
Regards
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