KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday again urged the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) — an ally of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government — to rethink its alliance with the Centre, which, he said, is “making the lives of Karachi’s residents difficult”. Bilawal was responding to a question regarding his offer of provincial ministries to MQM-P on the condition that the party quits its alliance with the PTI. MQM is one of PTI’s allies in the federal government and its MNA Farogh Naseem heads the Ministry for Law and Justice. MQM-P Convener Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui held the portfolio of information technology but he resigned earlier this month, saying that “staying in the federal cabinet seemed futile”. His resignation had come weeks after Bilawal publicly urged MQM to quit its alliance with PTI.

Source: Pakistan Today January 31, 2020 11:15 UTC