LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) countrywide membership campaign will begin from coming Sunday and will be Pakistan’s “biggest membership campaign in the history”, announced PTI chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday.
Addressing a press conference in Lahore, Khan said that around 4-5 million party members will elect party officials after a voting process.
“There will be open membership… The registered members will elect party officials,” said Khan and added that the party is preparing for the campaign as groundwork is needed for such a step.
“There are issues in Southern Punjab, especially after the passage of 18th Amendment, when all the powers have been centralised with the provincial government.
“The demands for Seraiki province, Bahawalpur province are increasing as the inferiority complex among people is rising. But we have a clear mandate: provinces should be in the form of administrative units,” stated Khan and added that the provinces should not be used as an “election gimmick”.
Correction: Due to an editing error, an earlier version of the article mistakenly wrote "4-5 million" as "40-50". The error has been rectified.
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i love pti we r supporting pti here at time of election we will be in pakistan INSHA ALLAH
Both PTI and the PCO SC have one thing major in common. They both endorsed and supported the acts of high treason by Gen Mush. Only after that they have become born again. The new or third force is all fine but where is the difference in PTI and other rightwing parties and their programs? The other parties are not good and let me have a chance and I would change everything in days does not make a revolutionary argument. I am not against any popular party but still waiting for a revolutionary or different manifesto, including new programs and where the money would come from and what would be slashed. Only a naive person would believe that we can do it all without any cuts.
Great job Imran Khan
@Acorn Guts: This placement is for running daily operations for next 3 months only. PTI is going to run membership campaign for 2 months and then have bottom-up elections (district level to national level) for a month. At that point, all the positions in the party will be put up for re-election, including that of chairman (currently managed by IK). PTI de-briefed about the plan yesterday.
Do all the members of PTI uphold "JUSTICE" in their everyday deeds? Let us all see and make a note if all the members of PTI show justice in their everyday deeds. Doing justice in everyday life makes a person Muslim whereas absence of justice makes people non Muslim. Doing justice is to regard, respect and treat every one of the humankind exactly as what he or she is, i.e. a humankind.
@Acorn Guts Do you even read the news or just post comments? @Pakistan Politics - PTI is not zero in Balochistan, trust me I live here. You will be astonished to see the support Imran gets in Quetta.
Imran's sunami truned out to be the perfect storm in the tea cup .PTI didnot ever dare to participate in the bye elections .So far so the revolution .lolzzzzzz,......
Now they are trying to woo the voters .
Beware of 2 numbri newcomers of other parties who would like to create difficulty. It's the job of the local PTI followers to scrutinize them.
I have not seen as many typo errors in any other newspaper. This is atleast my 15th time that ive easily recognized an error. ET should really take their time and not rush to just somehow pop up the news before others do while not caring about such errors. Shame!
Good job it would make PTI an organized party but PTI is still zero in Baluchistan, Sindh and upper punjab
No wonder Mr Hashmi was made the president of the party so suddenly yesterday. Don't want '4-5million' people to 'democratically elect' someone else as the party president by mistake now do we?
excellent !!!
i will respond
i am already registered, let me know how can i serve more?
Correct the caption of the image as well, You error-prone newspaper journos!
God bless IK
Sign me up, with PTI there is finally a chance for me to vote for a better Pakistan
Great Job! :)
Thats a big chalenge for PTI. If done successfully can do wonders for the party and will be a feather in their cap.
there is typo it should be 40-50 lakhs which is 4-5 million people