ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), a coalition partner of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), is going to join the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government this week.
The decision was taken by the party leadership after former federal minister and party’s president of K-P chapter Amir Muqam left the party.
PML-Q Senator Kamil Ali Agha told The Express Tribune that the party had informed the federal government about its decision. “We had a standing offer from the federal government, but could not join the K-P government due to the concerns of our former provincial president Amir Muqam,” he said. Senator Agha said that modalities of a coalition with ANP are being worked out, which will be completed in a few days.
The PML-Q has seven members in the K-P Assembly and is planning to reorganise itself and hold party conventions throughout the province. The party is a coalition partner of the PPP at the centre, as well as in Sindh and Balochistan.
Earlier, the K-P chapter of the party had adopted a resolution mandating its former provincial president Amir Maqum to form a new faction of the party. It led PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain to dissolve the party’s K-P wing, but then Muqam announced to join the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
On Saturday, Chaudhry Shujaat presided over a meeting of the party’s K-P chapter where members from the province reposed their confidence in his leadership through a resolution. The participants also vowed to distance themselves from those who had violated the party discipline.
During the meeting, Shujaat referred to the reservations of Muqam for the PML-Q’s decision of not joining the government in K-P.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 2nd, 2012.
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@A R Khan Yusufzai, I think in the start they mentioned the full name which shows K-P as Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Don't worry about foreigners, they can understand that. At the end, I request you to please think like a Pakistani because It gives wrong perception to the foreigners about us.
Dear Tribune Staff,
We would be indeed very grateful if you could start writing the full name of the province i.e Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Most of the foreigners reading your newspaper does not what KP stands for? If this indeed has to be written then Punjab should be typed as PB, Sindh as SD and Baluchistan as BN.