Former Q-League leaders join MQM

Karachi

Following the inclusion of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate Amjadullah Khan in the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), the party welcomed leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-e-Azam (PML-Q) into its fold on Monday.

During a press conference held at the Khursheed Begum Memorial Hall, former member of the Sindh Assembly and also the president of the PML-Q women wing in Sindh, Afshan Imran, along with former Q-League vice president Ghulam Hussain Ata, former joint secretary Gul Rani and sores of party supporters embraced the MQM’s ideology.

Addressing the presser along with the MQM's nominated mayor, Waseem Akhter, the dissident leader said that MQM chief Altaf Husain’s charismatic personality was the reason why people in large numbers were joining his party.

She told the media that she had been thinking of joining the MQM and finally taken the decision as the party had a political vision of taking pain for poor people and serving the masses.

She called the party’s discipline and its welfare policies other reasons for which people were coming into the MQM.

The politics of character assassination should be ended in the country, she observed.

Earlier, when the dissident leaders reached Nine Zero, rose petals were showered on their delegation for welcoming them into the party.

Akther said their joining was a sign of the MQM’s popularity despite those conspiracies which were being engineered against the party.

The PML-Q appears to be losing its leaders and supporters as its former president in Sindh, Haleem Adil Sheikh, had also jumped out of the party’s ship and joined the PTI along with his several supporters in the recent past.