Fissures emerge: PPP workers demand intra-party polls

PESHAWAR: Disgruntled workers of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) demanded the party leadership announce intra-party polls and threatened to announce their own chapters in all districts of K-P. This was decided at a convention held by the party’s dissatisfied leaders and workers at a local hotel on Saturday. Senior party members, including former federal minister Mian Muzaffar Shah, former MNA Tariq Khattak, former K-P assembly speaker Abdul Akbar Khan, were in attendance. The convention passed a unanimous resolution demanding the party’s senior leaders conduct intra-party polls immediately. The attendees vowed to only follow the party’s manifesto and continue striving for democracy. Another convention will be held in Charsadda on September 15.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 8^th, 2014.