Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari asked the premier to request Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to tap the phone calls of Foreign Minister (FM) Shah Mahmood Qureshi.
During his speech in the budget session on Wednesday, Bilawal traded barbs with the foreign minister and blamed him for hatching conspiracies in the party during the PPP government when he held the same portfolio.
He slammed Shah Mehmood Qureshi is actively involved in making covert deals on Kashmir.
“I would like to request the prime minister to order the ISI to tap Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s phone”, Bilawal said.
Responding to Bilawal, Qureshi lambasted him for leveling allegations of violating parliamentary traditions and tapping his phone calls.
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The matter was noticed by Pakistani journalist Cyril Almeida on his Twitter handle and wrote that PPP has reflected its terms with Shah Mehmood Qureshi in the session.
Asking the ISI to tap the phone of the serving foreign minister for political reasons pretty much sums up the PPP of today… https://t.co/GsEyjByjOC
— cyril almeida (@cyalm) June 30, 2021
Shah Mehmood Qureshi had served as a foreign minister from 2008 to 2011 when Bilawal’s party was at the helm.
Back in 2011, Shah Mehmood Qureshi resigned from PPP saying, “I had joined the PPP under Benazir Bhutto’s leadership, and PPP was no longer a party of Benazir, it is now Zardari league”.
But Bilawal says that during PPP tenure, Qureshi used to run campaigns globally against then PM Yousuf Raza Gilani.
PPP had some role models including the founder Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and his daughter Shaheed Benazir Bhutto who are known to have never bowed down before anti-democratic forces.
The party also played a vital role in restoring democracy in the country after nearly a decade in 2008.