PESHAWAR: Owing to differences between provincial leadership of Pakistan Muslim League-Q and its MPAs-elect, the former ruling party is yet to convene its parliamentary party meeting to elect the leader in the Frontier Assembly.
The PML-Q got five provincial assembly seats in the February 18 elections in the Frontier province whereas Nighat Yasmin Orakzai, party provincial information secretary, was elected on women reserved seats.
However, PML-Q Provincial President Amir Muqam and General Secretary Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani failed to reach the NWFP Assembly. Former provincial minister Sanaullah Miankhel, Dera Ismail Khan, Wajih-uz-Zaman, Mansehra, Haji Qalandar Lodhi, Abbottabad and Muhammad Zahir Shah, Shangla, and Ghulam Muhammad, a new face from Chitral, made it to the Frontier Assembly on PML tickets.
Talking to The News, an MPA-elect said that after losing elections on two provincial assembly seats, Amir Muqam was no more interested in the party affairs in the province. He said Muqam was visiting other provinces but did not bother to convene a parliamentary party meeting of the elected MPAs in NWFP.
The party has no plan whether it would sit on the opposition or treasury benches in the NWFP Assembly, added the MPA-elect, who requested not to be named. He said that Muqam was not a politician but a contractor, who joined the ruling party just to protect his business interests and promote his construction firm.
"His interest in the Frontier politics vanished after the party failed to get considerable strength in the provincial assembly as he [Muqam] was vying for chief minister's slot," the MPA said and added that the central leadership of the PML-Q should admit the defeat and reassess its policy and role in the future politics.
"We cannot take single step without guidelines from party leaders," the MPA-elect said, adding that even the party provincial secretariat in Peshawar had been closed after general elections. "Due to lack of interest by the party provincial leadership the independent MPAs-elect like Fazlullah from Shangla and Javid Khan Tarakai from Swabi, who were openly supported by the party during election campaign, did not join the PML," he pointed out.
The Pakistan People's Party-Sherpao, on the other hand, has convened its parliamentary party meeting and elected Pervez Khan Khattak as its parliamentary party leader in the NWFP Assembly. The Sherpao group has also extended its support to the ANP-PPP coalition government in the province.
Pervez Khattak told this scribe that they were enjoying the support of five independent legislators-elect, who had met PPP Co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari and extended their support to the PPP in the Frontier province. He said the party would convene another parliamentary party meeting before the maiden session of the NWFP Assembly.
(http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=13529)
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