Staff Reporter
Karachi
PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday offered Muttahida Qaumi Movement ministries in Sindh in exchange for the party breaking off its alliance in the Centre with the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf.
“Topple it, topple it, topple Imran’s government,” he said at a ceremony in Karachi, where he inaugurated four development projects on Monday. “We will give you equal number of ministries in Sindh. The only condition is that you send Imran home,” the PPP chairman said.
MQM is one of PTI’s allies in the federal government and its MNAs Farogh Naseem and Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui hold the federal ministries for law and information technology, respectively. During his address, Bilawal said if MQM breaks off its alliance with PTI and manages to get Sindh its share in resources, the provincial government will “stand by [MQM] for the sake of Karachi’s people”. Bilawal said, “The MQM-P should derail the government by ending its alliance with them…We will [PPP] support them fully.”
“For Karachi’s sake, all the ministries that the MQM-P has in the Centre, we will give them in Sindh. But the only condition is to send him [Imran Khan] back home,” he clarified. “Today or tomorrow, all the facilitators, all the allies [of PTI] will have to take this decision, will have to save Pakistan and end Naya Pakistan,” Bilawal said. Bilawal also criticised the PTI government over the decision to remove 800,000 people from the Benazir Income Support Programme, saying that it was “cruel and unjust to snatch Rs1,000 from poor women in this economic situation”.
