Bilawal again urges MQM-P to ‘rethink’ alliance with PTI
Statesman Report
KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday again urged the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) — an ally of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government — to rethink its alliance with the Centre, which, he said, is “making the lives of Karachi’s residents difficult”.
Bilawal was responding to a question regarding his offer of provincial ministries to MQM-P on the condition that the party quits its alliance with the PTI. While he did not extend the offer again, he said: “There are a lot of ideological issues between PPP and MQM, but as far as Karachi’s residents are concerned, I believe that we should solve [their] issues together.”
In December last year, Bilawal had offered provincial ministries in Sindh — where his party is in power — to MQM-P if it walks away from the PTI in the Centre.
While addressing a ceremony in the provincial capital, the PPP chief said that his government would offer an equal number of ministries to the MQM-P if it breaks off its alliance with the Imran Khan-led federal government.