HYDERABAD, July 26: PML-Q activists (dissident group) have condemned an alleged vilification campaign launched by a pro-Ghaffar Qureshi group against the senior members and office-bearers of the party’s women wing and called upon the central president of the party Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and general secretary, Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed to take notice of such activities and save the party from further disintegration.

Speaking at a news conference at the press club here on Thursday, Jamil Abbasi, Rizwan Shaikh, Qadeer Khanzada, Javed Alam and others said that the pro-Ghaffar Qureshi group have burnt effigies of the provincial general secretary of women wing, Ms Nasreen Riaz and district president, Ms Seema Solangi and have launched a campaign of vilification against the central vice-president of women wing, Begum Manzar Rawal.

They alleged that these elements were acting on the agenda of the opposition.

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