Islamabad: Chairman Pakistan People’s Party Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday demanded that Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi either withdraw his statement accusing the Sindh government of fanning provincialism or resign.
“I want that minister (Qureshi) to take back his statement. If he can’t take it back, then I demand his resignation. Unacceptable!” said Bilawal while addressing press conference at the Capital.
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“When I talk about Sindh, they accuse me of playing the Sindh card. But when I talk about Balochistan or KP or Gilgit-Baltistan, they don’t accuse me of playing the provincial card?
The PPP chairman was responding to the comments made by Shah Mahmood Qureshi during a special Senate session to debate the government’s policy on the Covid-19 pandemic.
Addressing at the Senate earlier today, Qureshi said that, “this is not the PPP of the past, which was a symbol of the federation. Today, I sense the roots of provincialism in the party,”
He further added that: “Karachi is as much ours as it is yours. Sindh is ours. Sindh’s capital is ours; even now the people of Karachi support PTI and our allied party MQM. Pointing at the PPP Senators in the House, he asked the Senators to get ready as the PTI was to make inroads into Sindh.
