KHAIRPUR, Dec 2: Five Pakistan Muslim League leaders of Saleh Pat taluka, Sukkur district, including a former special assistant to the Sindh chief minister, announced on Sunday that they had joined the Pakistan People’s Party.

The announcement was made by former special assistant to the Sindh chief minister Syed Qasim Ali Shah, Ajmal Khan Pathan, Anwar Laghari and others at an election gathering in village Tharri on Saturday.

PPP senior leader Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah was also present on the occasion.

People from various communities of taluka Saleh Patt assured that they would vote for the PPP candidates in the upcoming elections. Syed Qasim Ali Shah said that the PML-Q was not a party but just a group of people who had their vested interests. He said that the PML-Q had no manifesto whereas the PPP had a clear-cut policy.