Karachi (November 23, 2017): Former president of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday ruled out any possibility of a meeting with deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif a day after Sharif said he was willing to shake hands with the PPP leader without any condition for the sake of country and democracy.
According to the details, Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairperson and former president Asif Ali Zardari has, yet again, refused to meet former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, foiling the latter’s attempts for a meeting for the fourth time within three months, sources said on Thursday.
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The fourth and last effort seems to have failed after Asif Ali Zardari said chance of shaking hands with Sharif was out of question. Zardari considers Sharif responsible for the current political situation.
The PPP leader thinks Sharif seeks refuge in Charter of Democracy when he finds himself in trouble.
“We have always been stabbed, PPP signed Charter of Democracy which proved damaging for the party while Nawaz Sharif abandoned it at the last moment”.
On Wednesday, senior PPP leader Khursheed Shah said Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has requested him to arrange his meeting with senior leadership of his party.
Earlier, Nawaz has said that he is willing to have an unconditional dialogue with the PPP supremo. However, Zardari has reiterated his position time and again.
On October 9, the former president had said in an interview that a disqualified individual could not become a party’s president in a democratic system.
On August 16, Zardari had said that he had no interest in establishing contact with Nawaz Sharif. The PPP supremo had also stressed he had no interest in becoming part of a ‘Grand National Dialogue’ proposed earlier by Nawaz Sharif.
Earlier this month, Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif had remarked that he had failed to establish contact between the two leaders.
“I tried to contact Zardari many times, even left messages for him with his ADC.. but, Zardari didn’t answer any of my calls,” Asif had said, when he had mentioned contacting Farooq Naek, a PPP lawyer, to take up the Iqama (work permit) case against him.
Asked if there was a chance of PML-N and PPP working together, the minister had said that he could not say anything for sure. “Personally speaking, I think there is no chance of contact between the two parties.”
PPP Spokesperson Farhatullah Baber has also confirmed the News and said that this is not pertinent time for Nawaz and Zardari meeting. On the other hand, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has also declined to meet prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.
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