Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Monday that there are ups and downs in politics, downplaying the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) warning of quitting the coalition government in the centre.
PPP spokesperson Shazi Marri had a day earlier expressed annoyance over the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) not taking her party on board in the decision-making process, warning that the “federal government will collapse the day PPP withdraws support”.
She said Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif-led government kept the PPP and the Sindh government in the dark about the establishment of the Pakistan Maritime & Sea Port Authority (PMSPA).
The PPP spokesperson also said they had long been demanding to convene a meeting of the Council of Common Interests (CCI) as well, but no meeting of the CCI was convened in the last 11 months.
“There’s always a bit of a musical rhythm within a coalition government, just like within a family. Within a family, siblings or family members might have their disagreements.
“But that doesn’t mean there’s a serious rift. Whatever the issue is, we handle it internally in a mature manner,” the planning minister told reporters in Karachi, speaking alongside PPP leader and Sindh Minister Nasir Hussain Shah.
Explaining further, the federal minister said that the PML-N and the PPP are the country’s major political parties with their distinct ideologies. However, he maintained, that they are in agreement on Pakistan’s development — to stand on one page for the country’s interest.
