MUZAFFARGARH, Nov 27: The PML-N is likely to get a boost as PML-Q Senior Vice-President Nawabzada Iftikhar Ahmad Khan, MPA Mian Imran Aziz Qureshi and Tehsil Nazim Sardar Abbad Dogar are expected to join the party.

In the February 2008 elections, the PPP swept all the five NA and six out of 11 provincial assembly seats. The PML-N, however, failed to get even a single seat in the district.

Nawabzada Iftikhar told Dawn that he, along with his supporters MPA Imran Aziz Qureshi and Tehsil Nazim Abbad Dogar, would join the PML-N. He said he was in negotiations with the senior PML-N leaders, including the Sharifs, to join the party.

When asked why he was switching loyalty as he had joined the PML-Q just last year after ditching the party of his father (PDP), he said: “It is the need of the hour to join the PML-N because it will help him serve the masses.”

He said he had served the PML-Q sincerely and even contested election against his elder brother, Nawabzada Mansoor.

It is interesting to note that Mian Imran had not joined the PML-Q forward bloc and remained ‘loyal to the Chaudhrys’. He even did not attend an Iftar dinner hosted for forward bloc at Raiwind.