Islamabad
As the crackdown against the embattled opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party continues, ex-members and ticket holders from southern Punjab have announced that they are quitting the former ruling party joining the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
A meeting was held at the Bilawal House in Lahore where former president Asif Ali Zardari met with senior PPP leader Yousaf Raza Gilani and other party leaders as well as the new members.
On the occasion, former MNA Qutub Farid, Raees Akmal from PP-265, Sardar Shamsher Mazari, Qasim Ali Shamsi from PP-279, Farheen Batool, Abdul Aziz from PP-278, former MPA Rasool Bakhsh from PP-269, Peer Jafar Muzammil Shah from PP-277, Sardar Allah Wasaya from PP-273, Muhammad Alamdar Abbas Qureshi from NA-179, and Malik Abdul Ghaffar Arain announced their inclusion in the PPP. Furthermore, Jameel Shah, Rashid Shah, Sheikh Dilshad Ahmed, Omar Masood Farooqi and others who belong to the PP-209 constituency of southern Punjab, also announced their inclusion in the PPP.
