Uniting from the A to the Z: Ghous, Khosa set out to unite the Pakistan Muslim League

Claim the 'Mian brothers' are running the PML-N as their personal party

KARACHI: While Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif talked business and defence at the Karachi Expo Centre, political leaders of his own party used the time to meet and discuss the idea of forming a pressure group to make inroads into the ruling party.

"It would be a countrywide group of like-minded activists and leaders," said Syed Ghous Ali Shah, while addressing a press conference at his residence on Monday. "Our primary goal is to revive and unite all factions of the Muslim League, because the Pakistan Muslim League -Nawaz (PML-N) has failed in every aspect."



Shah, who was accompanied by former Punjab governor Sardar Zulfiqar Khosa, at the press conference, lamented that the PML-N had become a personal party of the 'Mian brothers', who were only interested in increasing their own wealth. "Those who believe Pakistanis and Indians are eating the same aaloo-gosht (meat curry), have no knowledge of the two-nation theory on the basis of which the Pakistan Muslim league founded Pakistan" he said.

Shah added that people had been contacting them from across Pakistan, urging them to form a group that would work for the interests of common people. "The Pakistan Muslim League has been divided into different factions such as the Q, Z, A and F," he lamented. Our primary goal will be to reunite and revive the actual Muslim League, which would be Quaid-e-Azam's Muslim League."

Former Punjab governor Sardar Zulfiqar Khosa agreed with Shah. He said this was just the initial step so he would prefer not to disclose the names of the people who were ready to join the group. "I assure you, however, that a large number of people and leaders are willing to join us," he said.

Khosa lamented that no genuine leader (of PML-N) now held any ministry, adding that all the ministers were personal friends of the 'mian brothers'.

Speaking to The Express Tribune, Shah said that they would neither start politics of agitation, nor would they demand early elections. He added, however, that they would cooperate with the parties conducting the sit-ins if they were invited to do so. Shah lamented that dharnas have started because people were unhappy with the Nawaz government.

For now, however, Shah claims they will simply revamp the old Muslim League and will announce the name of their party and its political stance at a later stage.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 2^nd, 2014.