PML-N lawmaker Humayun Khan jumps ship to Peoples Party

A member of the Sindh Assembly belonging to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Humayun Muhammad Khan, announced on Wednesday he had joined the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).

Speaking at a press conference at his residence in Keamari, Khan, an MPA from Karachi’s constituency PS-89, disclosed that he had been in contact with the PPP leadership for the last two years.

He said he had met PPP leader and MNA Faryal Talpur some two years back and since then he had been extending cooperation to the party. Khan added that he had decided to join the PPP after consulting people in his constituency. He expressed gratitude to the leadership and activists for granting him the opportunity to be part of the PPP.

People gathered on the occasion raised slogans in favour of the PPP when electricity failed at the MPA’s residence in the midst of the news conference.

MNA Faryal Talpur said Khan’s inclusion in the PPP amply showed which political party was the most popular in the country. The PPP would emerge victorious in the next general elections in the entire country, including in Karachi, she said, adding that her party had been progressing very well in Karachi as it had always welcomed new people joining it.

She said people in Karachi, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had started joining the PPP, which had always served the people in Karachi and would continue with its public service in the entire country.

Talpur maintained that the recent by-election in a Sindh Assembly constituency in Ghotki had proved that the people of the province were phenomenally in favour of her party. Also speaking on the occasion, PPP Sindh President Nisar Ahmed Khuhro said the party had done its best so that the people of Karachi could live without any fear of violence or threat in their lives.

He said his party had no plan to occupy Karachi; instead, it had been striving hard to win the hearts of its people by rendering them the best of service. Khuhro added that the political party that had ruled the city in the past had unleashed violence and atrocities against its residents. At present, he said, people associated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement had themselves started admitting to the party’s misdeeds against the people of Karachi. He said the dwellers knew well about the tactics employed by the MQM to rule Karachi.

He claimed that the people of the province and of the rest of the country would overwhelmingly vote in favour of the PPP in the next general elections due later this year to elect the party’s chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, as the next prime minister of the country. He said the PPP was all set to form the next provincial government in Sindh after the elections.