From Our Correspondent
MULTAN: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Sunday said that PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has recognised Prime Minister Imran Khan as ‘elected’ premier by proposing a no-confidence motion against him.
“He should now start calling Imran Khan an elected prime minister and not selected,” he said while talking to media in Multan.
Qureshi addressed PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s suggestion of a no-confidence motion to the opposition’s Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) against the incumbent government.
The PPP chairman had hinted at such a course of action during a press conference in Larkana on Friday.
Qureshi welcomed the idea, terming it a “constitutional measure”.
He added that the PTI government and its allies were confident that they are “in a position to confront and defeat it in a constitutional and parliamentary manner.”
“Now it is clear from this, Bilawal when you say you will bring a no-confidence motion, it means you have constitutionally accepted Imran Khan as (your) prime minister,” said the foreign minister, adding that Imran Khan was the prime minister, which is why Bilawal wanted to bring a no-confidence motion against him.
In light of the above situation, he advised the PPP chairman to “stop saying that he (Imran Khan) is (a) selected prime minister, he is (an) elected prime minister and (the) people of Pakistan have elected him.”
He said the no-confidence motion vindicated his stance that the PDM was an “unnatural” alliance since they first agree on a united position then eventually disagree, referring to the PDM’s changing stances on the issue of resignations and the long march to Islamabad.
“They will scatter and you are seeing that has (already) started.”
