KARACHI, Nov 27: A former minister in Dr Arbab cabinet, Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh, has said that he will decide about his future political association after consulting his friends and electorates.

He was responding to questions from the supporters who visited him at his residence here on Monday.

Mr Shaikh has recently resigned as the senior vice-president of the PML-Q complaining that the provincial party leadership was victimising him, his family and friends.

He had earlier been sacked as minister following his differences with Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim. He told the visitors that he would soon decide whether to join some other political party or to nullify the merger of his Sindh Democratic Alliance with the PML-Q to restore the SDA’s separate entity.

Mr Shaikh, a bureaucrat-turn-politician, said that during his recent meeting in Islamabad, he had apprised PML chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain of the reasons for his decision to quit the party.