Changing alliances: Former FATA MNA to join PML-N

Former PPP provincial minister Iftikhar Khan Mohmand also to join N-League.

PESHAWAR: Two formerly elected officials announced they will be joining the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Tuesday.

Baz Gul Afridi, a former parliamentarian from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) former provincial minister Iftikhar Khan Mohmand will add to Nawaz Sharif’s growing strength in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

Afridi along with his supporters announced this at Engineer Amir Muqam’s residence while Iftikhar made the announcement at the provincial secretariat in the presence of senior PML-N leaders, including Pir Sabir Shah, Amir Muqam, Khwaja Mohammad Khan Hoti, Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan and Rahmat Salam among others.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 28^th, 2013.