PML joint secretary joins MQM

Published January 9, 2007

KARACHI, Jan 8: As Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz spoke on Monday of all the ruling coalition partners contesting the forthcoming elections from a single platform, the joint secretary of the Sindh chapter of the ruling PML, Asghar Ali Rind, joined the Muttahida Qaumi Movement which has been at loggerheads with PML president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, especially in Punjab.

Addressing a press conference at Nine Zero, the headquarters of the MQM, Mr Rind said he had decided to quit the PML and join the MQM because he believed that MQM leader Altaf Hussain was the only leader who would change the fate of the people of the country.—Reporter

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