KARACHI: Just a day after Fauzia Kasuri resigned from the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chiding chairman Imran Khan for handing over the reins of the party to those “electable” people whom she had fought against since the PTI’s inception, the politician joined the Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) calling the former Karachi nazim-led party the “true representative of the middle class”.

The announcement was made at a joint press conference at the PSP head office by Ms Kasuri and party chief Mustafa Kamal.

The two vowed to struggle together for the rights of every Pakistani regardless of their ethnic and religious background. Ms Kasuri said that she found the PSP as the only party for the middle class, claiming that despite all odds it was gaining popularity in the masses.

“I have been an active political worker for years but I feel so disappointed when I find no one representative of the aspirations of millions of citizens wanting change,” she said. “That’s the reason why I chose the PSP. They are doing what they claim to instead of making tall claims.”

Mr Kamal claimed that his party was gaining popularity across the country and progress in the last two years had proved its “ideology of truth”. In the last two years, he said, 16 MPAs and four MNAs had joined the PSP with dozens of leaders and workers joining the party every other day.

Published in Dawn, May 25th, 2018