A relative of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif has formed a political party and will serve as its chairman, according to an Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) notification issued on Wednesday.
The notice regarding the registration of the Aam Awami Party (AAP) shows the party is founded by Sohail Zia Butt, Sharif's cousin, who will also serve as its chief.
Butt, who is based in Lahore, is said to have differences with the former PM, DawnNews reported.
With the registration of the AAP, the number of political parties registered with the ECP has increased to 353, the notification said.
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Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad
Oct 04, 2017 01:26pm
What else can he do?
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MA
Oct 04, 2017 02:09pm
Every citizen of Pakistan should make his own party in ECP.
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Anti-Corruption_Pakistani
Oct 04, 2017 02:22pm
Another party has fomed and number reached to 353. Let's wait and see how this new party will deliver or like 340+ it will be on back side as a sleeping party, who only wakes up to be on the limelight for a while before goes to hybridisation!
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Syed Anjum Ali
Oct 04, 2017 10:50pm
One day soon, there will be a political party for every Pakistani, and the ECP will thus have hundreds of millions of parties. We can then each vote for ourselves and be quite happy.
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GolMol Miya
Oct 05, 2017 02:52am
Looks like politics is in Sharif family bloodline.
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leoman
Oct 05, 2017 10:03am
To start and register a poltical party is damn easy but to run it on fair principles of democracy is very very difficult in Pakistan.
Real democracy will prevail or exist on that day when in any family all the adult children and other members could think independently and could vote without any pressure and this may not break their families too.
Unfortunately, real democracy will take probably 3 or 4 more centuries because you see even the employers force or black mail in some way or the other. Feudalism has to be broken first and the real equality ( mentioned by Islam) has to be accepted wholeheartedly.
Dominance of family oriented political rulers have to be shunned and then the supremacy of law in equal way for every single individual has to be observed.
So setting up political parties is neither good nor bad. Neither difficult nor easy. Election commission doesn't mind this sort of thing.
The sole aim of the political parties has to be welfare of the common people and the country.
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