Reorganisation drive: PTI to set up provincial advisory council

Sarwar says body will strengthen intra-party linkages, announces an ethics and discipline committee.

LAHORE:

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) provincial organiser Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar said on Thursday that the party would soon establish a provincial advisory council to create and strengthen intra-party linkages.

The former governor announced the decision at a meeting with former PTI district officials. Sarwar also announced the establishment of an ethics and discipline committee on the occasion.

He said the council’s constitution would strengthen the party and make it more active province-wide.



Sarwar said the council would be composed of PTI leaders and workers who would liaise with other workers at several levels. The former governor said the party’s reorganisation would enable the PTI to become a proactive force.

He said the ethics and discipline committee was being constituted to ensure party discipline. Sarwar said the committee was also being established to address workers’ complaints and enable them to overcome the challenges confronting them.

He said both bodies would begin functioning soon.

Sarwar also appointed Chaudhry Shaukat Ali Bhatti and Qamar Javed as the party’s Hafizabad district and deputy district organisers respectively at the meeting. “We will not leave party activists to their own devices,” he said. Sarwar said it was the workers who had strengthened the party.

The responsibility of reorganising the party has been divided between Sarwar and Shah Mehmood Qureshi, the national organiser of the PTI, according to a notification issued on Wednesday by PTI chief Imran Khan.

Sarwar has been made responsible for the party’s reorganisation in the Lahore, Faisalabad, Sargodha, Gujranwala and Rawalpindi divisions.

Qureshi has been tasked with overseeing reorganisation efforts in the Multan, Sahiwal, Dera Ghazi Khan and Bahawalpur divisions.

The PTI has been undergoing a structural overhaul following the dissolution of party offices by Khan in accordance with a report by Justice (retd) Wajihuddin Ahmed. Provincial organisers have been appointed nationwide under the party’s interim setup.

The former governor has been meeting district officials following his appointment as the PTI’s provincial organisation as part of the party’s reorganisation drive that formally commenced today (Thursday).

Published in The Express Tribune, May 29^th, 2015.