MANSEHRA, May 24: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MNA Sardar Mushtaq has warned that he would quit the party if ‘turncoats’ taken back in the party in the name of election alliance recently were not expelled.

He was referring to the election alliance of PML-N with PML-likeminded group, including former foreign minister Gohar Ayub Khan and his son Umer Ayub Khan.

“If the party leadership does not withdraw the decision of accepting turncoats back and allotting them party ticket in the upcoming general elections, we would part ways with the party and face the turncoats in the coming elections,” warned MNA Mushtaq while speaking to media persons here on Thursday.

The MNA said that he and other PML-N workers had stood firm against former dictator Pervez Musharraf at a critical juncture for the party, while he won Haripur seat with the support of people.

The lawmaker from Haripur, who was accompanied by former provincial assembly speaker Habibullah Tareen and local party activists, visited the residence of former secretary Riaz Khan and offered fateha for his departed soul.

Referring to Gohar Ayub and his son, Mr Mushtaq said that such people had betrayed the PML-N leadership, workers and people of Haripur by joining Pervez Musharraf-led PML-Q and enjoyed ministries for many years.

The MNA said that he had called a party meeting in Haripur next week to announce his future line of action.

QUAKE SURVIVORS: The women of New Badadi village built for survivors of October 2005 earthquake have demanded of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to include their names in beneficiaries of Benazir Income Support Programme.

“We have migrated here and living in a miserable condition, but we are still deprived of financial assistance given under the BISP,” said a representative of a group of woman while speaking at a press conference here on Wednesday.

The women said that they had migrated to the village built by an NGO on the outskirts of Mansehra after their houses in Shinkiary were destroyed in the earthquake.

They said that all the 27 households of the village had no money even to feed their children, but they were ignored in 2010 poverty survey.

The women included Gohar Nisa, Kulsoom Bibi, Bibi Hawa, Shamim, Gul Shaira, Noorun Nisa, Zakia Bibi, Farzana and others.  Most of the women said that they were very poor and their men had been working as daily wage workers.