PML-N workers come to blows at party meeting

Some members attacked district secretary on his objection to their nominees.

MULTAN: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz district committee meeting on Monday witnessed a violent clash between supporters of two members over nominations to various party offices in the district.

Addressing a press conference after the incident, PML-N Multan district secretary Imran Liaqat said his group will boycott all district committee meetings unless the party leaders took notice of the incident. He also demanded action against those he accused of beating him and other members.

Liaqat is considered close to former federal minister Javed Hashmi.

A few members apparently close to Rana Mehmoodul Hasan, another MNA, allegedly attacked Liaqat and his supporters during an argument over nominees for offices in the party’s district committee.

Talking to The Express Tribune, Liaqat said that he objected to some of the names proposed by Rana Mehmoodul Hasan. He alleged that ‘outsiders’ having no contribution to the party had been proposed. Arshad, a member close to Hasan, rejected the suggestion that there were any outsiders among the nominees. He said everybody on the list had been affiliated with the party for a long time. He said the objections were only because of the personal preferences of some members. The meeting held at the Circuit House was chaired by district coordinator Zahid Gillani.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 11^th, 2011.