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| Jamali refuses to re-join PML |
| 2007-08-08 |
| Former Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Tuesday turned down Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Pakistan Muslim League President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain's request to re-join the ruling party. The curt brush-off came from Jamali when the prime minister and PML chief met him briefly on the sidelines of a lunch hosted by Health Minister Muhammad Nasir Khan at his residence in Islamabad. Some treasury parliamentarians were also invited to the lunch. Requesting anonymity, one MP told Daily Times that the Leaguers discussed the country's overall political situation with a special reference to the ongoing rift between Jamali and Chaudhrys that had led the former to resign from party's basic membership. The PM requested Jamali not to issue hawkish statements against Chaudhrys and sort out differences with latter through dialogue and not through press statements in the 'larger interest' of the party, he said. Jamali said he had maligned no one in the party and had no intentions to do so in future. He turned down PM and Chaudhry Shujaat's request to join again the PML, the MP said. |
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