‘PPP and ANP have left PDM’: Shahid Khaqan Abbasi

General Secretary of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, said that Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Awami National Party (ANP) have left PDM. “Now their paths are separate.”

پی ڈی ایم میں 8جماعتیں موجود ہیں وہ اپنا کام جاری رکھیں گی پی ڈی ایم کے دروازے ہر اس جماعت کے لیے کھلے ہیں جو پی ڈی ایم کےمنشور اور فیصلوں پر چل سکتی ہے اتحاد اعتماد سے ہوتے ہیں جب اعتماد نہ رہے تو پھر پی ڈی ایم میں اس جماعت کی جگہ نہیں رہتی.شاہدخاقان عباسی pic.twitter.com/pN2EaqfaIh

— PMLN (@pmln_org) May 31, 2021

“There are eight parties in PDM and they will continue to do their work. The doors of PDM are open for every party that will follow the manifesto and decisions of PDM,” added Abbasi.

Meanwhile, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said that leaders of the fragmented anti-government alliance appear to be “confused and divided”.

Bilawal further added that PPP was not part of the meeting held on Saturday, yet PDM is still following the manifesto that was presented by the PPP when PDM was formed.

“We can have positive feelings for each other and wish everybody good luck. Everybody has the right to do Opposition politics in accordance to their own manifesto and ideology,” said the PPP chairman.

He made these remarks while addressing a press conference with ANP leaders in Charsadda on Sunday.

“کل پی ڈی ایم کے اجلاس میں پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی اور اے این پی موجود نہیں تھیں مگر آج بھی وہاں پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی کی پالیسی ہی چل رہی ہے۔
وہ آج بھی استعفی نہیں دے رہے اور پارلیمان میں ٹف ٹائیم دینے کی باتیں ہورہی ہیں۔”@BBhuttoZardari
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— PPP (@MediaCellPPP) May 30, 2021

PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Saturday said that the PPP and ANP were not discussed in the PDM meeting, as they are not part of the alliance.

“They [PPP] can still contact the PDM leadership and apprise them about their intentions. But it is not something that we will waste time over anymore during PDM meetings,” said Maulana Fazl.