September 16, 2003	Tuesday	Rajab 18, 1424

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HYDERABAD, Sept 15: At least 1,000 PML-Q members, including leaders, on Monday night tendered their resignations from the party’s basic memberships to protest against what they called the indifferent attitude of the party’s high command towards workers.

Resignations were handed over to the provincial convener of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q, Senator Nisar Memon, and Azad Bin Haider at the Circuit House here.

Prominent among those, who tendered their resignations, included Sindh PML-Q vice-president Chaudhry Saifullah, joint secretaries Rasheed Saghar and Saud Farooqui, youth wing leaders Shafique Arain and Rana Arshad.

When Dawn contacted them on the telephone, Chaudhry Saifullah confirmed that 1,000 activists of the party had resigned from their basic membership.

Sources in the PML-Q said that annoyed party workers surrounded vehicles of Senator Nisar Memon and Azad Bin Haider, raising slogans against the party’s high command.

They accused Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali and Sindh Chief Minister Sardar Ali Mohammad Mahar of having ignored “sincere” party workers during their two-day-long visit to Hyderabad, adding that they had not even cared to meet the provincial and local leaders of the party.

A local leader is reported to have told Senator Memon and Azad Bin Haider that it appeared as if the prime minister had only come to Sindh “to meet the Jamalis”.

Another annoyed party activist said that Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain seemed to be working as the personal assistant to the president and appeared to be least bothered about the party or the party cadre. PML-Q seems to have totally disintegrated in the interior of Sindh, he said.