Wattoo says that Mehmood’s efforts in south Punjab and his own in central Punjab will produce a surprise result for the party in the elections. PHOTO: NNI
The Gardezi family from Bahawalpur announced their decision to join Pakistan Peoples Party on Tuesday and vowed to give their opponents a run for their money in the upcoming elections.
Former PML-N MPAs Syed Salman Gardezi and Syed Irfan Ahmed Gardezi joined the PPP. Sajid Hussain Bukhari, the former tehsil nazim of Bahawalpur, also left the PML-N to join the PPP on Tuesday.
The three men held a press conference at the Governor’s House with PPP Central Punjab President Mian Manzor Ahmed Wattoo and other senior leaders of the party. Wattoo said the PPP welcomed the newly appointed Governor Makhdoom Ahmed Mehmood. He said Mehmood was a seasoned politician who would strengthen the party in south Punjab.
Wattoo said the gates of the Governor’s House would be open to the PPP’s workers. He said the PPP would gradually show its cards as it got closer to the election.He said Mehmood’s efforts in south Punjab and his own in central Punjab will produce a surprise result for the party in the elections.
Sources within the PML-N said the Gardezi family had joined the PPP because their rival, MNA Riaz Hussain Pirzada, had joined PML-N.
According to a PML-Q press release, former PML-N ticket holder from PP-22 Chakwal Pir Nisar Qasim has joined PML-Q along with many of his supporters.
Qasim expressed complete confidence in the leadership of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Chaudhry Parvez Elahi. Describing Elahi’s term as chief minister as a golden era for the Punjab, he said now the province had been rendered bankrupt by the PML-N, crime had increased, the Sharif brothers refused to listen to their own parliamentarians. He said most PML-N members of the assemblies were unhappy and many PML-N parliamentarians would quit the party once elections were announced.
Elahi said with Qasim joining the PML-Q, the party would become even stronger in Chakwal.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 26th, 2012.
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@Usman S.:
Had these Turn Coats joined PTI, The All Pakistan Troll Brotherhood would have passed a resolution demanding the news in this regard to be published in every newspaper accessible to humanity on planet earth.
It is funny to see these politicians joining the ruling coalition before the next elections. They know which way the wind is blowing. The irony is if these same people join PTI then it is a revolution and tsunami but if they join the ruling coalition it is sickness and corruption.
Oh vow! What a great development!!. Of course, ET couldn't anything else more newsworthy from the entire world to use this report about turn-coats as its lead story.
This PML-N buying PPP and PTI people while PPP trying to buying PTI and PML-N people. WOW what a business going on. These two parties will left no stone untrun to get back in power.
@Ali Tipu: Keep all this stuff into yourself. All power to the people. DOnt criticize the parties. Its the people which have right to elect. Let them give vote to anyone they like.
Yea keep up the joke of country run by few families. Rest of the population is slave.
This is like a slap to the Pakistanis. Look at these feudal lords deciding who will get how much power. This isn't democracy! The people decide not these corrupt overlords!
Gives one an impression of old stories about Arabs where in markets 'Ghulams' used to be bought and sold by their customers and then be presented to the world very proudly to get appreciation for their purchases. All in the name of 'Asoolon ki siasat' or 'Bhutto aaj bhi zinda hai'.