KARACHI: In a bid to mend cracks in the ranks of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) an 11-party opposition alliance, Pakistan Peoples Party senior leader Yousuf Raza Gilani offered to resign as the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate.
According to sources, former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani made the offer during PPP’s Central Executive Committee meeting in Karachi.
Yousuf Raza Gilani said that he was ready to tender resignation as Senate opposition leader right now if his party allows him. He maintained that the other opposition parties should avoid leveling baseless allegations on his party.
The sources said that PPP’s Central Executive Committee rejected his resignation offer. The meeting’s participant told the former prime minister that the entire party stood with him.
With input from INP
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