ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has categorically refused to make Pervaiz Elahi, leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), the chief minister of Punjab, saying that it is inappropriate and blackmailing to demand the slot while having only five seats in the provincial assembly.
Sources disclosed on Wednesday that, PTI senior leader and Defence Minister Pervez Khattak has told the PML-Q leader and Minister for Water Resources Moonis Elahi that PTI cannot give PML-Q the slot of CM Punjab. They are free to join Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) if they are offering the position.
“Pervez Khattak said that demand made by PML-Q with only five seats is blackmailing,” the sources added.
The defense minister also stated that PML-Q leader Tariq Bashir Cheema’s comments are an insult to the PTI leadership, if it were someone other than Tariq Bashir Cheema, he would have resigned from the Federal Cabinet before making such comments.
The PTI leader said that blackmailing your allies during the hard times is inappropriate.
It is pertinent to mention here that amid the ongoing political situation the leader of PML-Q and Speaker Punjab Assembly Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said that the allies of the PTI government are 100% leaning towards the opposition, added that it is Imran Khan’s responsibility to reverse the inclination.
The Speaker of Punjab Assembly continued saying that there is a 100% lack of wisdom in the government and further expressed that they were approached by all parties except the government.
Mr. Elahi stated that all parties except the government offered us, adding that decisions taken by the government in panic are coming to the fore. Only one person is walking around in a panic.
First, the government and then the opposition should cancel the announcement of public gatherings, added Speaker of Punjab Assembly.
He further said that not alone, everyone will make decisions together, our decision is blocked because of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).
