Jamali blames his exit on Hussain

Former Pakistan PM Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has blamed his exit from the top post on interim Prime Minister Shujaat Hussain and other PML-Q party leaders. Jamali said he was told by Hussain, who was also the president of the ruling PML-Q, that the party was not happy with his performance and asked him to quit. However, he said he would not have been shown the door had Hussain backed him. Jamali told The News in an interview that he put in his papers as he did not want to disrupt the political system and preferred not to make his resignation an issue of ‘‘personal ego’’.

‘‘I have already seen at least four to five governments come and go and knew it well that no one would afford yet another one,’’ he said. To a question, Jamali said he had no idea that Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz was being nominated to the PM post although he was happy with his elevation to the post.