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| More PML members defect to PPP |
| 2007-07-21 |
| Three more senior leaders of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) have defected from the party and announced joining the Pakistan PeopleÂ’s Party. They brought along with them 15 nazims, naib nazims and social figures from Muzaffargarh and Kasur. PML Muzaffargarh vice president Makhdoom Muzaffar Ali Shah and 15 nazims and naib nazims announced joining the PPP along with PML Kasur vice president Ashfaq Kamboh, PML Chunian secretary general Advocate Muhammad Sharif. Chaudhry Arif Sandhu, a National Alliance candidate for NA-138 also joined the party. Addressing a press conference on Friday at his Punjab Assembly chamber, Opposition Leader Qasim Zia told reporters that the party had approved ShahÂ’s joining of the party after consultations with divisional and district PPP presidents and the local party organisation. He said the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) was in tact and both Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto will sit together and resolve all issues between them. |
| Posted by:Fred |