KARACHI: Due to increasing differences among the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto has torn up the show cause notice issued by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Shahid Khaqan with the approval of alliance parties.
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari chaired a meeting of the party’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) on Sunday to discuss its response to the show-cause notice sent to it by the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) leadership.
Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said, “We do politics for the sake of honor, there is nothing more than honor. We rejected this show-cause notice,” he added.
On this occasion, Yousuf Raza Gilani offered to resign as the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate in a bid to mend cracks in the ranks of PDM, sources informed.
Gilani said that he was ready to tender resignation as Senate opposition leader right now if Bilawal allows him. He maintained that the other opposition parties should avoid leveling baseless allegations on his party. PPP’s Central Executive Committee rejected his resignation offer, sources added.
Sources said on this occasion, the participants of the meeting applauded the PPP chairman’s move. The meeting also discussed the IMF deal, the country s economy and the SBP Ordinance, while the PDM s proposal for resignations was also discussed.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah briefed the PPP leadership about the meeting of the Council of Common Interests. Sources said that the Sindh CM will fight the case of the people in the next meeting of the Council of Common Interests.
Earlier, a meeting of the opposition alliance headed by JUI-F chief Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman had issued a show-cause notice to the PPP and ANP to explain their positions over conflicting with the PDM’s decision to support the PML-N candidate as the opposition leader in the Senate poll.
It is worth mentioning here that ANP last week had announced to part ways with the PDM after the former was served a show-cause notice over supporting PPP in the appointment of opposition leader in Senate.
