ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Co-Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that the PDM alliance has disintegrated, only a formal announcement is needed.
Talking to media here at the F-8 courts on Monday, he said disintegration of the alliance started yesterday [when PPP chief Bilawal complained of low allocation for Sindh in budget]. Practically, the alliance has dismembered, he added.
“I had said that the PDM alliance is an unnatural alliance. It is beginning of the end, the alliance is crumbling,” Qureshi continued.
He said Bilawal expressed his concern [on budget allocations for Sindh] in a rally in Swat yesterday. “Bilawal is right. Why was there no mention of the allocation of Sindh in the budget?”
The PTI leader said he was aware of the devastation caused by last year’s floods in Sindh. Rehabilitation of the displaced people was not possible without huge allocation in the budget. And the PML-N government had not allocated funds for the purpose, he maintained.
Regarding rift between the PPP and the PML-N, Qureshi said the ministers were objecting to the by-election of Azad Kashmir. They accused the PPP of “massive rigging” in the by-election.
Despite alleging rigging in the Azad Kashmir by-polls, 14 PML-N members voted Murtaza Wahab in the mayoral election, Qureshi observed.
These are the indications of an imminent split in the alliance, he remarked.
He said it was difficult to deceive the educated youth by rhetoric. “The things are different now.”
About the upcoming general elections, he announced to name candidates [of the PTI] in every constituency. Everyone has the right to find their candidates, he added.
Qureshi also expressed his deepest condolence with the bereaved families of over 300 Pakistanis who lost their lives in the Greece boat disaster, saying that economic meltdown, state sponsored censorship and culture of fear and insecurity leading them to find any means necessary to leave.
He said: “My deepest condolences go to the families of over 300 Pakistanis who lost their lives in the Greece boat disaster.”
He said that young men, women and children all victims of human smuggling networks, made to journey through unspeakable conditions that ultimately led to the loss of their lives.
“May the families of all the victims be given the solace they need, to bear such a tragic loss,” he prayed.
He further urged that the state must find, punish and put an end to human trafficking networks in Pakistan, adding that equally, they must create a Pakistan where people see and have a future.
“No Pakistani should have to bear the brunt of a total economic meltdown, state sponsored censorship and this culture of fear and insecurity, leading them to find any means necessary to leave,” he added.
