Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Tuesday reaffirmed to continue cooperation with each other in coalition government in Centre.
The PTI assured the later of full implementation of the accord, which led the MQM to join the federal government after the last general elections. Both parties will sit together in Islamabad on July 31, 2019 for implementation of agreement, Jahangir Tareen, the central leader of the PTI stated this after he held talks with MQM leadership at its Bahadurabad Markaz.
The MQM delegation was led by Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, which received PTI delegation, consisting of Leader of Opposition in Sindh Assembly Firdous Shamim Naqvi and other members of PTI's Karachi chapter.
Both sides deliberated upon the progress on the implementation of power sharing agreement between two parties and put forward various proposals to implement it in letter and spirit.
After the meeting, talking to media, Jahangir Tareen said that the PTI government would honour its promises, made with MQM for joining the government and revealed that a meeting of both parties would be held in Islamabad by the end of month.
Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui also endorsed the views of Jahangir Tareen when he told the media that the PTI leader assured that all the points of the agreement would be acted upon.
"We put up very balanced and workable points before Jahangir Tareen," he said.
Both parties' leaders were in unison while criticizing Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)-led Sindh government for what they said ruining the city of Karachi.
Dr Siddiqui said, "We extended our cooperation to the PTI government in Center and in return, we want it to provide relief to people of Sindh, who have been suffered for the last eleven years.
"The urban centers of Sindh are calamity-hit after being targeted by economic terrorism," he opined and sought the relief from the federal government for these areas of province.
Siddiqui said that Karachi has been turned into heap of garbage where water and other necessities of life are scant. He said that demands of the MQM are related to welfare of the citizens of Karachi, expecting the federal government that it would play its role to resolve the issues.
The MQM convener felt that necessity of another amendment in the constitution to empower each tier of the government as 18th Amendment only devolved powers to provincial level. Jahangir Tareen said that scenes of destruction in Karachi are visible everywhere, adding that he reached in Karachi to meet MQM leaders to hold talks with them to resolve the issues of Karachi.
He blamed the Sindh government for depriving farmers of Sindh from "Emergency Agriculture Programme" worth Rs300 billion by not becoming part of it. Tareen said that the PTI government would fulfill the commitments and would take concrete steps for the implementation of accord.
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