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MULTAN, Jan 9: PML-N DG Khan tehsil vice-president Sardar Shahid Masood Khan Qaisrani has joined PPP after resigning from the basic membership and party office.
Addressing a press conference at a local hotel here on Tuesday, Mr Qaisrani said he was ideologically attached to the PPP as he along with his friends had established People’s Students Federation in college life during the regime of the late Gen Ziaul Haq. He did not criticise the PML-N leadership on the occasion.
Welcoming Mr Qaisrani’s announcement, PPP divisional president Chaudhry Sarwar Abbas said: “We are fully focusing on seven national assembly and 18 provincial assembly seats out of a total of 12 NA and 24 Punjab PA seats.
He claimed that a number of other bigwigs were contacting for joining the party.
BAR POLLS: Three candidates each are likely to contest for president and secretary general slots of Dera Bar Association elections scheduled to be held on Jan 13.
Mohammad Ejaz, Sardar Naseem Khan Khosa, Malik Mohammad Kamran Khalid are contesting for the president slot while Ihsan Kareem Khan Meerain, Mohammad Yaqoob Khan and Mohammad Faheem Akbar are in the field for the secretary general office.
Ten members of the executive body have been elected unopposed who are: Mehmood Nawaz Khan, Syed Munawar Tirimzi, A.G.Wafa, Imran Sohail Lodhi, Faiz Rasool Khan, Shaukat Ali Khan Galyani, Syed Imtiaz Husain Naqvi, Amanullah Khan Lund, Mohammad Abdullah Baig and Raja Nadeem Akhtar Similarly, finance secretary Mohammad Ishaq Birohi, library secretary Javeed Khan and auditor Syed Tahir Abbas Bukhari have earlier been elected unopposed.
