I can never part ways with PPP: Fahim

Fahim hoses down speculation of him attempting to create a forward block within the party


Web Desk January 04, 2015
PHOTO: REUTERS

KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) stalwart Makhdoom Amin Fahim on Sunday hosed down speculation of him attempting to create a forward block within the party due to differences with the party leadership. 

Speaking to reporters after a meeting with former president Asif Ali Zardari at Bilawal House in Karachi, Fahim said, “My relationship with the PPP is not such that I can part ways with it.”

Fahim and Zardari met amid reports that Fahim has decided to part ways with the party after being constantly sidelined.

“He was neither made the opposition leader in the National Assembly nor was his son inducted in the Sindh government as a chief minister, which was promised by Benazir Bhutto,” a senior PPP leader and close aide of the PPP stalwart told The Express Tribune on condition of anonymity.

Recent differences emerged following a PPP convention held in Lahore, where Zardari criticised many senior leaders, advising them to leave the party, the sources added.

Further, the former president had appointed Sherry Rehman as vice president of PPP a while ago, without the consultation of Fahim, who reportedly expressed reservations over the decision.

After Fahim met former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf, the main accused in the Benazir Bhutto murder case, rumour had it that Fahim was set to join an ‘anti-PPP’ group.

 

COMMENTS (19)

Zubair | 9 years ago | Reply

Sooner or later, he or his sons are definitely going to leave PPP. Such greedy politicians should not have any role to play in any political party of national caliber. I still remember his words in 2008, “Asif Ali Zardari yaaron k yaar hain, Asif Ali Zardari jo wada karte hain, wo poora karte hain”, while his name was being considered for PM-ship. He will only prove to be another Shah Mehmood Qureshi, the day he will leave. Good for PPP though, if he and people like him leave.

Dr AH | 9 years ago | Reply

Cowasjee once wrote about Asif Zardari: He (Zardari ) always gets a document signed by higher placed persons so that these persons can be black-mailed easily. Every time Amin Fahim spreads his wings to fly away from PPP, AAZ in his meeting with AF shows him the 'document' and Amin Fahim's wings become powerless. If Cowasjee were alive today, he would write more about AAZ - AF case.

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