SUKKUR: Senior leader of Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) and federal minister for Religious Affairs Syed Khurshid Shah announced on Saturday that a decision regarding the caretaker set-up would be taken within a week, Dispatch News Desk (DND) reported.
Talking to media persons in Sukkur, the minister said that PPP’s ‘politics of reconciliation’ had driven away dictatorship from the country. The ‘politics of the 90s’ would no longer be allowed to emerge, he added.
The PPP leader said that those party members have joined the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), who even didn’t vote to party candidates in senate elections. “They were already issued show cause notices,” Shah said.
Shah said that before the general elections, the political scenario in Balochistan would also be improved.
Commenting on the alliance with MQM, the PPP leader said that the alliance with the MQM was on the government level, in elections every party is free to present its manifesto.
Earlier on Friday, PML-N leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had said that a name for caretaker prime minister had been finalised after intra-party consultations.
In addition, unsubstantiated reports are doing the rounds here that the Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz, Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf (PTI) and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam – Fazl (JUI-F) have agreed on the name of Justice (retd) Nasir Aslam Zahid.
DND
