No place for Qureshi in PPP: Yousuf Raza Gilani

Staff Writer

Islamabad: Former Prime Minister and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) parliamentary leader in senate Yousuf Raza Gilani said this week that Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) vice-chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi had no place in the PPP.

The senior PPP leader also rejected the speculations that Qureshi was hosted by any party stalwart.

Gilani maintained that Qureshi and his close aides were spreading rumours about his meetings with PPP leaders.

In response to Qureshi’s claim that he was defeated in the provincial assembly election in Multan by his own party, Gilani stated that the polls were rigged. “Now the confession has come from someone who benefited from the rigged elections and was appointed as a federal minister by the declared winner,” he insisted.

Gilani said PTI Chairman Imran Khan had failed to accept facts about life and politics. “He has for the first time accepted Hamza Shehbaz as Punjab Chief Minister during a hearing in the apex court. I am sure he would also accept Shehbaz Sharif as Prime Minister of the country since both were elected through a democratic process,” he maintained.

Gilani asked PTI chief Imran Khan to desist from creating chaos and rather explain his follies and failures in the government.