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Karachi: Pakistan’s fragile PPP-led federal government got a lifeline today when its biggest ally MQM announced its return to the coalition after its demands like the rollback of petrol prices were met.
But the Muttahida Qaumi Movement leaders, who held crunch talks with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani here, said the party would not join the federal cabinet.
“In the larger interest of the nation and keeping in mind the critical economic and security challenges our country is facing, the central committee of the MQM has decided to again sit on the government benches,” senior MQM leader Reza Haroon told reporters at the party’s headquarters ‘Nine Zero’.
The announcement came after Gilani, accompanied by Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, visited the MQM headquarters for the first time. He was showered with rose petals and was accorded a warm welcome upon his arrival.
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