ISLAMABAD: Asif Ali Zardari, the former president and co-chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), declared on Tuesday that the PPP is unlikely to rejoin the joint opposition alliance, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM).
The former president told reporters after receiving a pre-arrest bond in the New York Property case that he doesn’t know for sure, but that the possibilities of the PPP being a part of the PDM are low.
Zardari added that the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) president Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who also leads the PDM, had marched in the past, referring to the anti-government alliance’s long march on Islamabad set for March 23.
The former president’s remarks came a day after Shehbaz Sharif, the president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), met in Islamabad.
Both parties decided to stage anti-government protests in order to destabilise the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). After PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif agreed to an internal change, the meeting was called.
When asked about the PTI government, Zardari stated that he was already opposed to it since the beginning. He expressed optimism about the internal shift as well. He stated the administration is made up of “imprudent individuals” who are unfit to rule, referring to the PTI, and that recent history has proven this.
The government, according to the PPP co-chairman, is powerless to help people.
