Election tickets: PML-N activists accuse leaders of favouritism
Women wing members allege party leadership of nepotism in allotment of reserved seat tickets.
PML-N women wing activists alleged that PML-N leaders had given party tickets for women reserved seats to their family members and cronies. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI:
Members of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Sindh women wing have accused the party leadership of exercising favouritism in the allotment of party tickets for reserved women’s seats in Sindh.
Speaking to a news conference on Friday, PML-N women wing activists, Zaibunnisa and Dr Shehnaz Akhtar, alleged that PML-N leaders Nehal Hashmi, Mushahid Ullah Khan and Saleem Zia had given party tickets for women reserved seats to their family members and cronies.
“We applied for the reserved seats’ tickets. We were interviewed at Lahore first and then by Ghaus Ali Shah on March 24, but when we checked our names with the Election Commission of Pakistan, they weren’t on the list,” said Zaibunnisa, who has been associated with the party since 1997 and has won the councilor elections at PS-89.
She alleged that Mushahid Ullah Khan’s daughter, Anna Faisal and Nehal Hashmi’s wife, Nishat Fatima, have secured party tickets along with other women who have not done anything for the party.
They have appealed to the party’s chief, Mia Nawaz Sharif to take notice of the issue and have warned of going on hunger strike if their demands are not met.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 7th, 2013.
Members of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Sindh women wing have accused the party leadership of exercising favouritism in the allotment of party tickets for reserved women’s seats in Sindh.
Speaking to a news conference on Friday, PML-N women wing activists, Zaibunnisa and Dr Shehnaz Akhtar, alleged that PML-N leaders Nehal Hashmi, Mushahid Ullah Khan and Saleem Zia had given party tickets for women reserved seats to their family members and cronies.
“We applied for the reserved seats’ tickets. We were interviewed at Lahore first and then by Ghaus Ali Shah on March 24, but when we checked our names with the Election Commission of Pakistan, they weren’t on the list,” said Zaibunnisa, who has been associated with the party since 1997 and has won the councilor elections at PS-89.
She alleged that Mushahid Ullah Khan’s daughter, Anna Faisal and Nehal Hashmi’s wife, Nishat Fatima, have secured party tickets along with other women who have not done anything for the party.
They have appealed to the party’s chief, Mia Nawaz Sharif to take notice of the issue and have warned of going on hunger strike if their demands are not met.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 7th, 2013.