{"id":254538,"date":"2022-04-12T16:55:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T11:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=254538"},"modified":"2022-04-12T16:55:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T11:55:57","slug":"ppp-divided-over-bilawal-serving-as-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/ppp-divided-over-bilawal-serving-as-foreign-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"PPP divided over Bilawal serving as foreign minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is divided on the issue of Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari joining the federal cabinet as the country\u2019s new foreign minister in the coalition government under Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.<\/p>\n<p>Background interviews with several party leaders confirmed the reports in some media circles that the PPP chairman might become the foreign minister, though in-house consultation on the matter was still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>There are two camps in the PPP. One believes Mr Bhutto-Zardari should go for the foreign ministry slot, as it would provide him with an experience of handling international affairs and ultimately benefit him if he becomes the country\u2019s prime minister in future.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the other camp, however, think the PPP chairman should not become a part of the federal cabinet under Mr Sharif, as it would undermine his status of being the head of the second-largest party in the ruling coalition. This camp also believes PPP workers may not like to see their chairman working under the prime minister of the PML-N \u2014 PPP\u2019s main competitor in politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is divided on the issue of Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari joining the federal cabinet as the country\u2019s new foreign minister in the coalition government under Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Background interviews with several party leaders confirmed the reports in some media circles that the PPP chairman might become the foreign minister, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[555,3432,364],"class_list":{"0":"post-254538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-bilawal-bhutto-zardari","9":"tag-foreign-minister","10":"tag-ppp"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PPP divided over Bilawal serving as foreign minister<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/ppp-divided-over-bilawal-serving-as-foreign-minister\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PPP divided over Bilawal serving as foreign minister\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is divided on the issue of Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari joining the federal cabinet as the country\u2019s new foreign minister in the coalition government under Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. 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