PESHAWAR: Former Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) women’s wing leader, Shazia Aurangzeb, joined the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Friday.
During a press conference at PPP Provincial President Anwar Saifullah’s residence, Aurangzeb along with Sufia Israr, Saleema Jehangir and Maryam Gandapur, also formally from the PML-N, joined the ruling party. They said PML-N has become a party relegated to drawing room politics with no consideration for its workers.
“I am ending the nine-year long affiliation with PML-N by joining PPP”, Aurangzeb said, adding that her joining is not for personal considerations but for the rights of those workers who have been ignored by her former party.
“I salute late Benazir Bhutto and those who rendered sacrifices for the cause of democracy in the party,” she said.
Aurangzeb, an MPA from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, was the central secretary general of the PML-N’s women wing when differences emerged between her and the provincial leadership of the party.
She had refused to accept the appointment of new office bearers in the wing, which was a decision made by the party’s provincial president Pir Sabir Shah. Later, she was issued a show-cause notice for publicly dissenting with the PML-N’s decisions on these appointments.
Aurangzeb had visited Lahore to meet Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz seeking their support but Shah and other local leaders, Mehtab Abbasi and Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, went ahead with their decision.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 1st, 2012.
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@Sting Honey:
second party in nine years is pretty slow by Pak standards since many have made an entire circle from PMLN to Q to PTI and back to N.
She changes parties more quickly than her makeup, and changes more colors than a chameleon. Shame to such inconsistent politicians who have been wooed by Anwar Saifullah Khan's swad of money.