
Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Monday that disagreements were expected in a coalition government and didn’t always mean there was a problem. He responded to concerns made by PPP spokesperson Shazia Marri that the government wasn’t consulting the party on important decisions.
The two parties have been fighting for a while now, already having different ideas about how to run the country. Even though Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Asif Ali Zardari met recently to rebuild trust, their arguments didn’t seem to end.
Yesterday, PPP leader Marri commented that these disagreements were brought back to the forefront. She criticized the PML-N-led government for not consulting her party before making important decisions, such as creating the Pakistan Maritime and Seaport Authority. The government, she claimed, “hung on PPP’s support” and would “collapse” without it.
Today, Iqbal responded to the PPP leader’s comments by telling reporters in Karachi, along with Sindh Energy Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, that “slight differences” were normal when coalition governments were formed.