It is a shame how Kasuri is now choosing to publicly criticise and smear her former party and colleagues.
MARDAN: This is with reference to your report on Fauzia Kasuri leaving the PTI. I have no claim of any knowledge or understanding of how the PTI works or takes its decisions. But to anybody who watches television in Pakistan, it is not clear that any woman has worked harder or more loyally or tirelessly or with greater devotion and dedication to promote, project and defend the PTI than Fauzia Kasuri. She did this very visibly for many years, including a long period when no one gave the party or its prospects the time of day. I for one would have thought it would be obvious she would be at or near the top of any list of candidates for electoral office, and not placed at number four, which was the case. Having said that, it is a shame how she is now choosing to publicly criticise and smear her former party and colleagues.
If it was indeed the principles of integrity and honesty and a justice-based system that drew someone like Fauzia Kasuri and kept her in the PTI all these years, then she has no other place to go (she should reject offers from the PML-N and some other parties, as reported in the media) and she and the PTI must make their peace. This, despite the PTI, sadly and quite disgracefully, having placed ahead of her other women.
However, if it is the politics of business as usual that Ms Kasuri is looking for and motivated by, then obviously she has many choices before her.
Sher Ali Khan
Published in The Express Tribune, June 10th, 2013.
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