"PTI stands for merit-based policies in the society while there are no merit-based promotions within the party”, says Zain. PHOTO: FILE
A women wing leader from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Farzana Zain has quit the party and joined the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
Zain officially announced ending her more than a decade-long affiliation with the PTI at a press conference on Wednesday. “The PTI is not really what it stands for,” she said, adding offices within the party are not given on merit.
Chief organiser for PML-N’s women wing, Sobia Khan, PML-N youth wing secretary information Khadim Ali Khan and PML-N candidate for NA-2 Peshawar-II Abdul Bari Khattak were also present at the press briefing.
Zain said she has worked for years to make the PTI a prominent party in Peshawar and hoped to secure a higher office, but this did not happen. “The party (PTI) stands for merit-based policies in the society while there are no merit-based promotions within the party”.
From the union council level to the highest level of the organisation, people are selected on personal likes and affiliations, she added.
She said she has tried time and again to inform party leader Imran Khan via text messages and emails, but he did not care to respond.
“They (PTI leaders) have played with the emotions of people by promising for change. But there is no practicality to this,” she claimed, adding that other PTI workers are soon to follow her steps and join the PML-N.
Khattak added the PTI was only sloganeering for change. “We will show people what change is in reality by awarding tickets on merit to party workers.”
Published in The Express Tribune, April 4th, 2013.
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Uzma, be realistic. In your heart and mind you know that you were not elected for the higher office. PTI made all the decisions based on elections. You took advantage of high time in this election and broke into PML-N for a better position. No one has problem with that. But please don't make false accusations.
I just checked for Farzana Zain in the intra-party results for peshawar. She is not among those elected in the district Peshawar! Here is the link for Peshawar intra party elections:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/125633443/Peshawar-Result
Those swtiching parties have been denied tickets, are nothing but rolling stones. Reasoning it with principles makes one think Pakistan's political landscpae is hijacked by like minded gangs in search of opportunities to loot and plunder. Her stance would weight if she had quit politics rather joining PMLN. What milestones PML-N has acheived, particularly in last five years ? Nothing .. It's money and power that speaks .. and speaks louder ! But there is a limit to everything. Youth can't be lured now. Let there be free and fair elections and the results will show them ( PPP, PMLN, MQM, ANP, JUIF ) stars in the day.
soon we will see Imran Khan too vying to join PML-N. A good charity worker does not necessarily mean he could be a good politician too! Imran Khan was pitched by Zardari's establishment to work as spoiler for PML-N. But Pakistanis have recognised this conspiracy. InshaAllah Allah. PML-N will clean sweep the elections.