Qureshi will join Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf: Imran Khan

Islamabad, Nov 15 (ANI): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has claimed that former Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi would join his party.

The cricketer-turned-politician insisted that Qureshi would make this announcement on November 27 during a public gathering in Ghotki, the Nation reports.

Qureshi had ended his 18 years of association with the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), saying that the policies of the party are being pursued by President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

He had also announced his resignation from his post in the National Assembly on Monday.

"There is no PPP. It has become a Zardari League. I announce that I will not remain associated with the Zardari league," The 55-year-old leader, who quit the cabinet in February, said, adding that the PPP co-chairman had lost the vision of the late party Chairperson and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto by joining hands with her foes.

Qureshi, who took nine months to make up his mind to quit the party after his relationship with the leadership became strained when he declined to accept the water and power portfolio in a cabinet reshuffle in February, now wants to take another two weeks to decide about his future plan, saying that he will disclose it during a visit to Ghotki, Sindh, on November 27. (ANI)