LAHORE:
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) held a joint meeting to devise a strategy for intra party elections and the PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s tour of Punjab.
A press release said it was decided to call a province-wide convention this Sunday in Lahore. Khan would begin his tour on December 9 from Sadiqabad in South Punjab.
PTI leader Ahsan Rasheed said there were no new or old people in the PTI. “Everyone has to work together to strengthen Khan’s position,” he said. Rasheed said he would not contest any seat. He said the election schedule would be decided in the all-Punjab meeting on Sunday.
He said Khan will hold a two-hour meeting daily with party workers during his tour of Punjab. He said he will arrive in Lahore in the last week of December. He said the decision to hold intra-party elections received a good response. “PTI will become the first political party in South Asia to hold intra-party elections,” he said.
PTI leader Abdul Aleem Khan said PTI office bearers in different constituencies would be elected jointly with a mutual understanding. He said intra party elections would strengthen PTI.
Other speakers proposed a number of ways to increase the party membership at the union council level. They said corner meetings should be maximised and committees should be formed to assign responsibilities.
The meeting was chaired by Ahsan Rasheed and Abdul Aleem Khan and attended by Umer Cheema, Hamaad Azhar, Mian Haamed Meraj, Jamshaid Cheema, Shoaib Siddiqui, Mansha Sindhu, Dr Zarqa, Talat Naqvi, Sardar Arif Rasheed, Abdul Rasheed Bhatti, Dr Shahid Siddique, Nasrullah Mughal, Farrakh Javed Moon, Sheikh Aamer, Sardar Kamal Umer and Ameen Zaki.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 29th, 2012.
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No is better politician more than Imran Khan.no better political party more than PTI..it is request to all beloved pakistani that plz vote to PTI and give them chance becoz PTI is tha last hope for better future of pakistan...Long Live Pakinstan...............
Jamat-e-Islami is the only party holding internal party elections since its inception so IK's claim is bogus
@Rizwan: I have known IK since I was at Cambridge when he was at Oxford. I have a great deal of respect for him. But as a voter he is blowing his chances. Please don't get emotional.
We can never help PPP by supporting PTI. My vote only for PML(N).
Will PTI please stop the false claim that they the only party which helds elections and now saying in whole south asia. I mean claims like this make your party look dumb
Hope = PTI
For PTI supporters: I have seen interview of Dr Tahir ul Qadri on ARY. The guy is a learned scholar and has some bright ideas. I feel IK can work with him,
Well done PTI
Good luck PTI... Mr. Khan please complete the intra party elections as soon as possible so that PTI could focus specifically on general elections....
VOTE FOR PTI...
@Falcon, This is not news even, that explains intra party strategy and does not hold any significance to national politics, except that people will open it when they see PTI in heading.
Thanks ET for bringing it to the front page.
PTI and Khan have lost precious time conducting intra-party elections (going on for far too long) that have lost its meaning for the common voter. The voter wants a single message coming from the party and its policies that show intention and commitment of PTI and its candidates to resolving the nation's myriad problems. They don't like the daily ball-by-ball commentary of internal dynamics of PTI. A few more weeks of the same will bust PTI's cause setting it adrift in the twilight zone.
ET...please do consider moving this news to the front page. I accidentally came across this. Otherwise, many users like me won't even see that.