PSP seeks support for public meeting

Karachi

Leaders of the newly formed Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) are gearing up for their upcoming public gathering at Bagh-e-Jinnah on April 24 and is reaching out to other political parties to muster support.

The information secretary of the PSP, Iftikhar Alam, told The News on Monday that he would approach all political and religious parties and ask for their participation in the public gathering.

As the first step in this direction, a delegation headed by Raza Haroon met a central leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Isnsaf (PTI), Imran Ismail. The meeting to formally invite the PTI to the public gathering turned into a joint press conference addressed by leaders from both parties. Other PTI leaders present on the occasion included MPAs Khurrum Sherzaman and Samar Ali Khan, Karachi chapter president Ali Zaidi. 

Dr Sagheer Ahmed, Iftikhar Alam and another new addition to the PSP, former chairman of the All Pakistan Muttahida Students’ Organisation, Waheed-uz-Zaman, represented the host party. However, Ismail said that as the day scheduled for the public gathering coincided with the PTI’s foundation day, also observed on April 24, it would be hard for PTI leaders to participate in the programme. 

“But the proposal will be discussed with the party chief and presented before the party’s central cabinet,” he said.

When asked if it would also approach the Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi, PSP information secretary Alam said this particular issue had not yet come under discussion. However, he said, central leaders of the party would issue a policy statement in this regard sometime later.

Next, he said, he and other PSP leaders planned to pay a visit to the Jamaat-e-Islami headquarters Idara-e-Noor-e-Haq, followed by the secretariats of the Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Quaid.