Bilawal says PTI incapable of working alongside coalition partners
January 31, 2020
KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto said Friday it did not appear as if the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) coalition partners would continue working with the ruling party.
Bilawal spoke to media, saying the slogans against the PTI were being raised in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The PPP chairperson said the prime minister had taken a "U-turn" on his earlier claim of providing jobs, as well as other things pertaining to welfare work.
He said the federal government was not resolving the issues of Karachi.
While taking aim at the government’s coalition party Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), the PPP chairperson said the party should start focusing on the issues of Karachi rather than on the ministries.
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Bilawal Bhutto expressed hope that the ongoing issue of Sindh Inspector General of Police Kaleem Imam would be resolved soon with consultation between Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah.
Earlier today, Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi had said the government should not consider coalition partners as their 'second wife', raising objection on the government's move to constitute new committees to keep liaison with allies.
Earlier, on Thursday, sources in the MQM-P had told Geo News that it had demanded another ministry from the federal government as a condition for its return to the cabinet.
The sources said the MQM-P had asked for a ministry for its leader, Syed Aminul Haque, in order to return to the federal cabinet. Until the federal government gave Haque a ministry, the party would not rejoin the cabinet, the sources added.
Meanwhile, as news broke, the Karachi-based party's deputy convener, Amir Khan, refuted the claims, saying they were baseless. The MQM-P did not want a ministry but wishes to solve the city's issues, he said.
The party also did not request for a ministry during the meeting at senior PTI leader Jahangir Khan Tareen's residence, Khan added.
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