ISLAMABAD: Former foreign minister, PPP leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi
has said that, had Benazir Bhutto been alive, those enjoying power
would never have been there at all.
Addressing a press
conference at the press club on Friday, the former foreign minister
said that those ruling the roost were never liked by Benazir Bhutto,
who had appointed him as the next PM in 2002, and pointing his fingers
at those who endeavored to carry out disciplinary action against him,
said that these every elements hovered around Punjab CM, Mian Shahbaz
Sharif, enjoying his patronage for three whole years.
Shah
Mahmood Qureshi strongly discounted the notion that he had ever
violated party discipline by meeting Mian Nawaz Sharif; recounting the
fact that Mian Nawaz Sharif was the first one to carry out any
reconciliation with late Benazir Bhutto, and also sign the Charter of
Democracy with her in London.
He also warned that if PPPP
insisted on carrying out any disciplinary action against him, he had
many options in store, as well.
He was also critical of the
fact that PPP was at ease in the company of elements, which had a
questionable record in connection of her murder; besides being
responsible for sheer murder of Constitution through 17th Amendment.
Strongly
berating the government for its failure to protest the lives and
property of masses, he also voiced his protest against the recent
burning and bleeding of Karachi.
Referring to the issue of
suspended additional DG-FIA, Zafar Qurieshi, he said that it seemed as
if government had special grudge against entire Qurieshi clan. Online
