Changing loyalties: Chaudhry Nisar’s first cousins join PPP
Chaudhry Waqar Khan and Sardar Iqbal say they disagree with PML-N’s policies.
ISLAMABAD:
Chaudhry Waqar Khan and Sardar Iqbal Khan, first cousins of leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and former members of the Punjab Assembly on Saturday joined the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
Speaking at a news conference, the two Khans said that they had spent a long time with PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif but now they differed with his policies. They said they were not satisfied with the policies of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and decided to join PPP.
Attendees at the news conference included: PPP leaders Faryal Talpur, Jehangir Badar, Raja Pervez Ashraf and Haji Nawaz Khokhar.
Chaudhry Waqar and Sardar Iqbal said that “they have left the PML-N for good and joined PPP unconditionally.”
They said that the Sharif brothers were not listening to the suggestions of their party workers.
The two Khans reposed full confidence in the leadership of PPP Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari and other leaders and pledged to play their role in further strengthening the party in the province.
PPP General Secretary Senator Jehangir Badar on the occasion, welcomed the PML-N leaders into PPP’s fold, saying that his party’s doors were open to everyone.
He said that PPP had always given due respect to party workers as it considered them an asset. He said the party would never disappoint its workers and would consult them on all important issues.
Badar said the PPP believed in the policy of reconciliation and would take all its allies along.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 9th, 2011.
Chaudhry Waqar Khan and Sardar Iqbal Khan, first cousins of leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and former members of the Punjab Assembly on Saturday joined the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
Speaking at a news conference, the two Khans said that they had spent a long time with PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif but now they differed with his policies. They said they were not satisfied with the policies of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and decided to join PPP.
Attendees at the news conference included: PPP leaders Faryal Talpur, Jehangir Badar, Raja Pervez Ashraf and Haji Nawaz Khokhar.
Chaudhry Waqar and Sardar Iqbal said that “they have left the PML-N for good and joined PPP unconditionally.”
They said that the Sharif brothers were not listening to the suggestions of their party workers.
The two Khans reposed full confidence in the leadership of PPP Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari and other leaders and pledged to play their role in further strengthening the party in the province.
PPP General Secretary Senator Jehangir Badar on the occasion, welcomed the PML-N leaders into PPP’s fold, saying that his party’s doors were open to everyone.
He said that PPP had always given due respect to party workers as it considered them an asset. He said the party would never disappoint its workers and would consult them on all important issues.
Badar said the PPP believed in the policy of reconciliation and would take all its allies along.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 9th, 2011.