Ali Gohar Mahar, the leader of the Mahar group, will announce that they are joining the Pakistan Peoples Party at a public gathering in Khan Garh.
This is a significant development insofar as the Mahar group has stayed on the sidelines of politics for the last four years. Prior to this they backed the Pakistan Muslim League-Q.
The Mahar consists of Ali Gohar and his brothers, Ali Muhammad Mahar and Raja Mahar, and their cousin Muhammad Bux Mahar. Ali Muhammad Mahar held the post of chief minister of Sindh during Musharraf’s tenure. The Mahars are strong in upper Sindh’s Sukkur, Shikarpur, Ghotki areas. On the other side of the fence but of the same clan is Ghous Bux Mahar, who has cast his die with the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid.
On Friday, Ali Gohar said that that his group would soon meet President Asif Ali Zardari.
Sources told Sindh Express that Mahar felt that his group’s opponents, Dhareja and Lund, were trying to prevent them from joining the PPP.
Sources said that Mahar met with one of his group’s supporters, Rahim Bux Bozdar, and took him into confidence about joining the PPP as well.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 25th, 2012.
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@ali gilani: people like you own a computer and internet, have a job, afford petrol upto 104rs/litre, eat out at expensive restaurants.....think about the people who cannot because of this corrupt elite or maybe you won't coz PPP's blessings have benefited a lot of people and their way of ruling suits you
@Raja M Asad Abbas: you forgot to mention 1. Destruction of Pakistan Railways 2. Almost bankruptcy of PIA 3. Ephedrine Case 4. Hajj Scandal 5. Rental Power Scandal 6. NICL Scam and the list goes on
PPP Will Win In Sindh Becaz 1.Benazir Income Support 2.Benazir Women Support (by Gov.) of Sindh 3.Waseela-e-Haq 4.Benazir Basti Scheme (BBS) 5.Allotment of Land to Land Less Peasants 6.Goths Given Lease 7.Reinstatement of Sacked Employees 8.Employment for the People of Sindh More than 90 thousand Personals have been employed 9.Water Supplying Schemes and More than 200 RO Plants for Interior Sindh 10.Infrastructural Development 11.Benazir Tractor Scheme 12.Waseela-e-Haq Sindh another Scheme for 35000 Personals in 23 Dis. 13.Pakistan Watan Card to More than 1 Million People in Sindh
14.Recent Allaince With Syeds of Jamshoro a son of the late former minister Koral Shah Unar's Of Larkana Chachar tribe of Ghtoki and Pano Aqail Chandio tribe in Kamber district Saleem Jan Mazari of Kashmore GM Shah and Shaukat Shah have become close to the PPP and Now the Mehr's
15.Gas Supply and Electrification
And Ali Gilani Yes PPP is the Party of Federation and I read about some Economic Back fall or disaster when Ur Pervez Musharraf Left Economy was at 1.21 in 2009 it was 4.9 due to floods in 2010-11 it was 2.1 & 2.4 Respectively Now it is 3.7
And Many Other reasons Such as the Court Factor if u Move to Interior Sindh there is a Strong Perception as We Or I have in Punjab that the Court is Biased and Is a Sharif Court as So it is Punjab
Last but not the Least PPP Vote bank is Intact in Sindh and Punjab though ot may lessen a bit but it is Still Intact as We saw it in the Multan By-Elections
Voting back PPP means complete economic collapse. That party is full of waderas and saaeens, who care nothing about local people. Sindh is one of the most backward areas only because of these feudals. These feudals even stole flood aid last year.
@ali gilani, are you related to musa gilani ?
PPP will win again. It must win since this is the only tolerant political party with countrywide support. Please support it in next elections if you don't want DPC or TTP take us over and destroy the very fabric of this, once peaceful country.