Fifth MQM MPA, Punjab vice president join PSP

Karachi

The Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) earned itself two new members after they renounced their Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) memberships, on Wednesday.

Elected member provincial assembly on MQM’s ticket, Dilawar Khan not only resigned from the party but also gave up his assembly seat; taking the number of MPAs to have resigned from MQM to five and from provincial assembly to six Elected MPA from PS-110, Khan, who had also served as town nazim for Saddar, announced his decision at a press conference held at Kamal house, the headquarter of the PSP.

As was maintained by other members who left the party, Khan also blamed the MQM chief for ruining the party, which was why he and other members chose to cut off all ties with it.

Chief of PSP, Mustafa Kamal, while welcoming Khan to the party claimed that more important leaders would join the PSP once they would have understood the MQM chief’s ‘intentions’.

MQM Punjab’s vice president Abdul Karim was the second to have joined the PSP on Wednesday. Flanked by Raza Haroon and Iftikhar Randhawa – also former MQM members – at the press conference, Karim said he did not want to be associated with a party that had links with the Indian intelligence agency, RAW.

Currently touring Punjab in a bid to set up party units in the province, Haroon and Randhawa were visiting Gujranwala where Karim announced to join them. 

Earlier, MPAs Dr Sagheer Ahmed, Iftikhar Alam, Bilquis Mukhtar, Ashfaq Mangi
and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Syed Hafeezuddin had joined the PSP; once key members of the MQM, Raza Haroon, Waseem Aftab, Anees Advocate were among others to have joined the ranks of PSP after Kamal and former deputy convener of the MQM’s Rabita Committee Anees Qaimkhani announced setting up their own party on March 3.  Former MQM senator Mohammad Ali Brohi was also among the dissidents.