Internal discontent: PML-N says veteran members sidelined
Iftikhar Ahmad says tha PML-Q dissidents are given importance over members affiliated with the party for 20-25 years.
PESHAWAR:
Iftikhar Ahmad, a member of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) from Charsadda, said the party leadership should review its decision of appointing new members at high posts and sidelining old party activists. Ahmad said that party chief Nawaz Sharif should prioritise the matter at the provincial level in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) where so-called ‘fresh’ leaders have occupied offices. Addressing a press conference at the Peshawar Press Club, Ahmad further said that new members (who are PML-Q dissidents that recently joined the PML-N in K-P) are unable to win even union council elections for the party, but are now given importance over members affiliated with the party for 20-25 years. “We don’t want to be the part of this new PML-N where people with no outstanding affiliation are now found close to Nawaz Sharif,” Ahmed said.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 1st, 2012.
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