LARKANA – Former President Asif Ali Zardari has alluded to forge an alliance with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in the post-election scenario, in much the same fashion as Senate elections, provided an opportunity arises.
Talking to journalists on Friday in Lahore, the co-chairman of Pakistan peoples Party quoted a proverb ‘necessity is the mother of invention’ and explained that there was a necessity in the Senate and if there is a necessity PPP will form an alliance again.
The 62-year-old politician added that if the opportunity does not arise PPP was willing to sit in the opposition as well.He clarified that the party would not forge an alliance merely for entering power corridors.
“Mr Khan appears to be in haste to become prime minister, but I am not in such a hurry since I had previously lived in the President House as well as in the Prime Minister House,” quipped Zardari.
To a query about the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s statement that ‘aliens’ were trying to install a parliament of their choice, Zardari said that PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif should explain who these ‘aliens’ were.
“The same aliens had backed Nawaz Sharif in the 1988 polls,” claimed the former president.
When asked why he was not ready to meet Nawaz Sharif, the PPP leader said that Mr Sharif had damaged the democratic project nurtured by the sacrifices of PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and leader Benazir Bhutto.
Zardari dubbed Nawaz Sharif as ‘Prince Saleem’ of the Mughal Empire and said he negated all this struggle and weakened democracy through his style of governance.
The PPP co-chairperson said he did not believe the general elections would be delayed.
“I know it is hot and Ramzan is approaching, but we had similar conditions earlier too and elections were held on schedule,” he said.
