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| July 21, 2006 | Friday | Jumadi-ul-Sani 24, 1427 |
Dissidents in Balochistan PML plan party polls
QUETTA, July 20: Members of the ‘forward bloc’ in the ruling PML in Balochistan have said they will hold party polls within 15 days to elect new office-bearers at the district level, adding that they will also elect new members of the party’s provincial and national councils.
Addressing a press conference at the press club here on Thursday, Noor Khan Tareen and Malik Ahmed Shah Lehri said that Chief Minister Jam Mohammad Yousuf, who is the party’s provincial president, was least interested in organising the party at the grassroots level.
They claimed that most party members had expressed reservations against Jam Yousuf when party leaders Syed Kamil Ali Agha and Iqbal Dar had visited Quetta and given them proposals in writing.
They claimed that a six-member delegation had been invited to hold talks with the party chief, Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain, general secretary Syed Mushahid Hussain and Kamil Ali on June 17 in Islamabad.
Mr Tareen and Mr Lehri said that the party’s top hierarchy had also asked Jam Yousuf to attend the meeting but he had claimed that the party’s leadership had accepted workers’ demand to form a committee comprising honest workers without attending the meeting in the federal capital.
They alleged that the chief minister had formed an eight-member committee to select office-bearers at the district level instead of holding transparent party elections.
They reposed full confidence in the leadership of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and blamed Jam Yousuf for the non-implementation of President Musharraf’s development programme in the province.
They accused the provincial government and ministers of being involved in corruption and said that it was damaging the party’s and President Musharraf’s reputation, adding that these corrupt individuals were using the president’s and the party’s name for personal gains.
Mr Tareen accused Jam Yousuf of creating misunderstandings between President Musharraf and Baloch leaders Nawab Akbar Bugti and Sardar Ataullah Mengal, plunging the province into a grave political crisis.
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