December 02, 2007	Sunday	Ziqa’ad 21, 1428

SIALKOT, Dec 1: Members of the Variyo family have decided to contest the general elections as independent candidates if the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-i-Azam (PML-Q) leadership does not address their grievances and give them party ticket from their desired constituencies.

The PML-Q has given party ticket to Chaudhry Abdul Sattar Variyo to contest the upcoming polls from NA-114 but he is more interested to contest from NA-113. The PML-Q leadership, however, seems indifferent to Sattar’s this demand.

The PML-Q leadership had given Sattar Variyo party ticket earlier from NA-113 but later they decided to field Variyo from NA-114 instead of former law minister, Zahid Hamid, after promising him a Senate ticket.

Disgruntled Sattar Variyo over this party decision told reporters in Daska on Saturday that the Variyo family’s all candidates woulad contest the Jan 8 general elections as independent candidates if the PML-Q did not give them party tickets for their desired constituencies.

He said the Variyo family had enormous popularity at the grassroots throughout the district and they would play this trump card during the upcoming elections.

He said the time was ripe for the Variyo family to show its full political potential and encash its vote bank in the district.

Sattar Variyo has filed his nomination papers both from NA-113, Daska, and NA-114, Pasrur, while Sattar’s nephew and former provincial minister Khush Akhtar Subhani has filed his nomination papers for NA-111, Sialkot, against PML-Q’s candidate Chaudhry Amir Hussain and also from PP-125 Sialkot.

Similarly, Sattar Variyo’s son and former provincial minister Armughan Subhani has filed nomination papers from PP-127, Pasrur.