Outcome of meeting with Shah Mehmood Qureshi soon: PTI defector.

KARACHI -- Former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Sindh senior vice president Mahmood Moulvi has said that the outcome of the party's defectors' meeting with incarcerated PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi would be visible soon.

Moulvi was one of the several party leaders who quit the PTI leadership position and also resigned as a Member of the National Assembly earlier this month in the aftermath of the May 9 violent riots.

Khan's party has been feeling the heat of the government's might after his enraged workers attacked military installations, including the Lahore Corps Commanders House and the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, following his arrest in a corruption case on May 9 - a day the army dubbed as 'Black Day'.

"Our meeting with Shah Mehmood Qureshi at the jail was encouraging and its results would be revealed within two days," Moulvi said during an interview on private tv programme.

The ex-PTI leader said he had other former party leaders - Fawad Chaudhry, Imran Ismail, and Aamir Kiani - did not visit the incarcerated ex-foreign minister on someone's direction.

Sources familiar privy to the knowledge of the meeting told media that the party's former bigwigs had met Qureshi in Adiala jail on Wednesday to "change" his loyalty.

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