Upper Dir: PML-N senior member resigns

DIR: Secretary Information Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Upper Dir, Dilawar Kohistani announced his resignation from the party on Thursday after developing differences with the party leadership. In a press conference, Kohistani said he was giving up his years-long relationship with the party as the leadership has “totally ignored” the “real party workers” and their sacrifices. He said that he bore the hardships of jail for the cause of the party but the leadership was awarding credit to those who did nothing for it. Dilawar said that owing to incorrect policies of the party leadership, he and other ideological workers of the party are announcing their resignation from the party and added that they will soon announce their future course of action.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 25^th, 2011.