Bitter competitors: Rana Sanaullah predicts PTI downfall

Says the party will be break into 3 factions, one each led by Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Javed Hashmi and Jahangir Tarin.

LAHORE: While Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf rides high on the tide of its new found popularity, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has taken it upon itself to predict the new competitor’s downfall.

“If PTI wins seats in the next general elections, it will end up being divided into three factions and chief Imran Khan will be thrown out of politics,” Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan told reporters in Lahore.

Of the three breakaway factions, he said, one will be led by Shah Mahmood Qureshi, second by Javed Hashmi and third by Jahangir Tarin.

Sanaullah said that the entire PML-Q has merged into the PTI and even the Chaudhrys of Gujrat are seriously contemplating joining the PTI. “Imran will [eventually] become the 12^th man in PTI.”

He said that it is ironic that Imran cannot even be certain of his own future but keeps talking about becoming the prime minister of the country.

Speaking about PML-N MPA Shahid Mehmood Khan, who resigned from his Punjab Assembly seat soon after Javed Hashmi quit the party, Sanaullah said that Shahid was an investor of Hashmi and had resigned because Hashmi had left.

Mentioning former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s fourth death anniversary, he said that after being in power for four years, the Pakistan Peoples Party had forgotten to investigate the circumstances of her assassination.