Qureshi to join PPP-Bhutto lead by Fatima Bhutto

Despite the unambiguous announcement made by none other than Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan that the Former Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi resigned to join his party, most of Qureshi's close associates kept insisting that, he was in no haste to join PTI and is more interested in joining PPP (Shaeed Bhutto) under the leadership of Fatima Bhutto or Zulfikar Bhutto Junior.

Earlier, after Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s resignation, Imran Khan had clearly said on a popular talk show that the Former Foreign Minister resigned to join his party. He rather asserted that the public meeting that Shah Mahmood Qureshi intended to address in Ghotki will also be a PTI show.

However, despite the unambiguous announcement made by none other than Imran Khan regarding Qureshi’s next step, most of Qureshi's close associates kept insisting that he was in no haste to join Imran Khan.

One experienced PPP MNA from the Saraiki Belt sell the story that Shah Mahmood Qureshi did not like Imran Khan’s "telling it all too soon" attitude. Shah Mahmood Qureshi, he claimed, had a clearly chalked out plan. The first step is to hold a public rally on the border of Punjab and Sindh to prove his support in the Seraiki belt and Sindh. Only after showing his popularity, does Qureshi want to negotiate the terms for joining either PPP (Shaheed Bhutto) or PML (Nawaz) or PTI.

Before the intended negotiations, however, he wants to revive "The PPP of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto,” the MNA said. He added that Qureshi is discreetly talking to Mumtaz Bhutto. With the help of the patriarch Bhutto, Shah Mahmood Qureshi desires to persuade Ghinwa Bhutto, the widow of slain Mir Murtaza Bhutto, that she should either send Fatima Bhutto or Zulfikar Bhutto Junior to the rally he plans to hold at Ghotki.  "Imran Khan has subverted his whole game," claimed the MNA, "and being a Makhdoom of elitist pedigree, Shah Mahmood Qureshi might find it hard to swallow."

Update 27th November: Former Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi announced joining Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.

Shah Mehmood Qureshi made the announcement during his address to a large public meeting in the presence of PTI Chief Imran Khan at Ghotki, Sindh.