PTI kicks off preparation for 2018 elections
Tehreek-e-Insaf sets up parliamentary board to select candidates
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ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) kicked off preparations for the 2018 general elections on Wednesday by setting up a parliamentary board under party chairman Imran Khan to select candidates for the National Assembly and provincial assembly seats.
The party also formed a political committee to finalise arrangement for a couple of public rallies before the next hearing of the Panamagate case. Senior PTI leaders, including Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Jehangir Khan Tareen would lead this committee.
PTI focusing on 2018 elections: Tareen
These decisions were made during the meeting of the party’s core committee that was held at Imran Khan’s Bani Gala residence. A PTI spokesperson said the names of other board members will be revealed later.
Talking to reporters, PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi insisted that the next general elections were likely to be held much ahead of the schedule. “Most probably in the next year,” Qureshi said, when he was asked to specify when he thought the next general elections would be held.
Pakistanis, he said, were fed up of rampant corruption under the PML-N rule and they wanted early elections. Reiterating his party’s stance, he said that the government had lost the moral authority to rule the country following Panama Papers revelations.
As more abandon PTI, change slips through Imran's grasp
He said that the political committee would decide upon the party’s strategy for its mass mobilisation campaign.
Accusing the prime minister of lying on the floor of the National Assembly, he said that Nawaz Sharif had deliberately misled the parliament about his off-shore assets. “People no longer trust Nawaz Sharif,” he said.
PTI, Qureshi said, had established one thing before the court: “the Sharif family has nothing in their defence.”
Published in The Express Tribune, December 15th, 2016.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) kicked off preparations for the 2018 general elections on Wednesday by setting up a parliamentary board under party chairman Imran Khan to select candidates for the National Assembly and provincial assembly seats.
The party also formed a political committee to finalise arrangement for a couple of public rallies before the next hearing of the Panamagate case. Senior PTI leaders, including Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Jehangir Khan Tareen would lead this committee.
PTI focusing on 2018 elections: Tareen
These decisions were made during the meeting of the party’s core committee that was held at Imran Khan’s Bani Gala residence. A PTI spokesperson said the names of other board members will be revealed later.
Talking to reporters, PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi insisted that the next general elections were likely to be held much ahead of the schedule. “Most probably in the next year,” Qureshi said, when he was asked to specify when he thought the next general elections would be held.
Pakistanis, he said, were fed up of rampant corruption under the PML-N rule and they wanted early elections. Reiterating his party’s stance, he said that the government had lost the moral authority to rule the country following Panama Papers revelations.
As more abandon PTI, change slips through Imran's grasp
He said that the political committee would decide upon the party’s strategy for its mass mobilisation campaign.
Accusing the prime minister of lying on the floor of the National Assembly, he said that Nawaz Sharif had deliberately misled the parliament about his off-shore assets. “People no longer trust Nawaz Sharif,” he said.
PTI, Qureshi said, had established one thing before the court: “the Sharif family has nothing in their defence.”
Published in The Express Tribune, December 15th, 2016.