PTI MNA joins PML-Q

Yasir Gujjar and colleagues repose full confidence in PML-Q leadership

LAHORE: An important figure from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has defected to the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q).

MNA Chaudhry Muhammad Yasir Gujjar called on Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, the party’s Punjab president, at his residence on Thursday, and announced joining the party along with his colleagues.

Gujjar reposed full confidence in the leadership of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, President PML-Q, and Elahi.

PML-Q leaders Chaudhry Zaheeruddin, Muhammad Basharat Raja, Mian Munir, Dr Azeemuddin Lakhvi and Shadab Jaffery were present on the occasion, whereas the delegation which joined the PML-Q included Chaudhry Aslam Gujjar, Chaudhry Asif Gujjar, Chaudhry Kashif Gujjar, Muhammad Arshad and Ahmad Raza.



Thanking Gujjar and his colleagues for joining his party, Elahi said, “The focus of our party right from the very beginning has been the common man which is why even today our tenure is alive in the hearts of the people.”

He said the Panamagate case had swept away ministers and advisers in many countries, adding that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would not be allowed to become a political martyr.

Elahi said the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) had done a remarkable job, unearthing serious discrepancies in the money trail provided by the Sharif family about their offshore properties.

Corruption of rulers had been exposed before the whole world, he said, adding that the entire Sharif family, including Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif, was involved in corruption and looting the poor people of Pakistan with both hands.

Calling the metro bus a “Jangla bus”, he said it was only meant for a hundred thousand people, and 20 million people of Lahore were ignored. “Is this the only problem of Lahore?” he said.



The PML-Q leader said that during their tenure they had launched 1122 service, provided free education, ensured delivery of free medicines in emergency wards of hospitals, exempted residential units from tax, gave tax relief to farmers owning 12.5 acres of land and provided them cheap fertiliser. On the other hand, Shehbaz Sharif had not been able to make any such project during the last 23 years, he claimed.

“If we get an opportunity again, we will start from where we had left,” he said, adding that he challenged the Sharifs a number of times to compare their accomplishments with those in his five-year tenure, but they “lack moral courage to face facts”.