Changing loyalties: Chaudhry Nisar’s first cousins join PPP

Chaudhry Waqar Khan and Sardar Iqbal say they disagree with PML-N’s policies.


October 09, 2011

ISLAMABAD:


Chaudhry Waqar Khan and Sardar Iqbal Khan, first cousins of leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and former members of the Punjab Assembly on Saturday joined the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).


Speaking at a news conference, the two Khans said that they had spent a long time with PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif but now they differed with his policies. They said they were not satisfied with the policies of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and decided to join PPP.

Attendees at the news conference included: PPP leaders Faryal Talpur, Jehangir Badar, Raja Pervez Ashraf and Haji Nawaz Khokhar.

Chaudhry Waqar and Sardar Iqbal said that “they have left the PML-N for good and joined PPP unconditionally.”

They said that the Sharif brothers were not listening to the suggestions of their party workers.

The two Khans reposed full confidence in the leadership of PPP Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari and other leaders and pledged to play their role in further strengthening the party in the province.

PPP General Secretary Senator Jehangir Badar on the occasion, welcomed the PML-N leaders into PPP’s fold, saying that his party’s doors were open to everyone.

He said that PPP had always given due respect to party workers as it considered them an asset.  He said the party would never disappoint its workers and would consult them on all important issues.

Badar said the PPP believed in the policy of reconciliation and would take all its allies along.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 9th, 2011.

COMMENTS (8)

Nouman Javed | 12 years ago | Reply

Response Chaudhry Nisar is an effective critic when he marshals his facts and arguments, but he has shown a disconcerting tendency to get carried away by the exuberance of his own verbosity and descend rapidly into language skirting close on disrespect if not abuse. If the Treasury benches are expected to uphold democratic parliamentary norms in accommodating their colleagues on the opposition benches, how much more is the responsibility of the Leader of the Opposition to set a good example? Being an effective parliamentarian also imposes the need for restraint, discipline and civility. The problem of course is not confined to the person of the worthy Leader of the Opposition. He is merely one of the more prominent representatives of an authoritarian mindset that afflicts our polity and society. Such a mindset is often so convinced of the rightness of its position as not to brook any dissent or obstacle to its realisation. Democracy, on the other hand, sets rules for behaviour inside and outside parliament and imposes on its adherents the requirement of patience, even when there may be ‘provocation’.

Jadugar | 12 years ago | Reply

I hope that that these two gentlemen have joined the PPP for all the good reasons and not for their personal gains, though Pakistan political affliations and power distributions are based on Bradari system, Its time that these should really start working for the benifit of the nation and the less previliged. these people have to realize that their previliged status cannot last for ever. When will Pakistan give birth to a son who will lead and carry the entire nation forward.

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