Has PML[Q] begun to fall apart?

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*Looks like the lota league is crumbling too. I am sure ‘certain’ certain ppl will get heartaches after reading this. *

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\12\17\story_17-12-2007_pg7_11

Party men continue to quit PML-Q
KARACHI: The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) candidates for the national and Sindh assemblies continue to refuse to contest the general elections on the party ticket.

For example, Ghulam Sarwar Sarki (candidate for NA-210 Kandhkot, Kashmore) announced that he was quitting the PML-Q and was instead contesting the elections from the platform of another group, the Kandhkot-Kashmore Awami Ittehad.

In Kambar-Shahdadkot district, Sultan Khuhawar, who was an advisor to the former chief minister of the PML-Q, made a similar announcement. He would stand as an independent candidate from the same constituency, PS-40. The PML-Q gave his ticket to Abdul Waheed Brohi.

In Tando Mohammad Khan, the PML-Q candidate on NA-234, Zakir Hussain Mari, quit to join the rival Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). In Naushehro Feroz, PS-21’s Syed Manzoor Hussain Shah gave the PML-Q its ticket back and decided to join hands with the National Peoples Party (NPP). “Syed Manzoor Hussain Shah was with Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi today to submit his NPP ticket with the DRO,” the NPP’s Naeemur Rehman told Daily Times. For its part, the PML-Q has scoffed at the importance of these changes.

“It is not a big issue that our candidate is contesting from another platform,” the PML-Q’s Nadir Akmal Leghari told Daily Times. qazi asif

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It is obvious a party which is full of lotas and not one decent person will fall apart as their main criteria is to stay in power by hook or crook. watch and see how these corrupt and greedy members of PML (Q) abandon the dictator at the first whiff of trouble,

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Defections to give tough time to PML-Q](http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\12\16\story_16-12-2007_pg7_16)

ISLAMABAD: Former ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) is facing desertions ahead of January 8 elections, especially after the two main political parties led by former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif entered the election arena to give a tough time to the former ruling coalition.

**Several former MNAs and ministers of PML-Q, mostly from the Punjab, have jettisoned the party and joined Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). **

Some of them have announced to contest the upcoming elections as independent candidates, while the others are joining the opposition parties or switching former coalition partners of PML-Q.

Political pundits consider it a serious blow to the PML-Q leaders’ dream of emerging as a leading party in the election to keep their grip on power in the next setup, while PML-Q believes that these desertions are result of local group politics. Most of those who have left the party blame Chaudries of Gujrat for ignoring the workers.

“This is part of political process and result of local politics. Some people switched loyalties because they could not get party tickets and some refused tickets due to local political scenario,” PML-Q Information Secretary Senator Tariq Azeem told Daily Times.

He said PML-Q was a “lucky party”, as it had received over 3,000 applications for the upcoming elections and it was not possible to “keep everybody happy”.

“We have strongest candidates in almost every constituency and these few desertions would not affect our party strength. We wanted all the people, including those denied the tickets, to continue with us but unfortunately they switched sides,” he added.

Those who parted ways with PML-Q include three former federal ministers Zahid Hamid, Jahangir Tareen and Tahir Iqbal, two former state ministers Malik Amin Aslam and Hina Rabbani Khar and former parliamentary secretary for defence Tanvir Hussain Syed and Chairman Standing Committee of the National Assembly on Sports and Culture Rai Azizullah Khan.

Zahid Hamid joined PML-N after the party took back his ticket for NA-114 (Sialkot), while Jahangir Tareen was reportedly preparing to contest the elections along with his brother-in-law Makhdoom Ahmed Mehmood on PML-F tickets from Rahim Yar Khan district due to differences with Chaudhries. Tahir Iqbal has joined PML-N and withdrawn his candidature in the party’s favor.

Similarly, Hina Rabbani Khar has made arrangements with PPP for NA-177, Muzaffargarh, while Malik Amin Aslam from NA-57, Attock district, has returned ticket mainly due to differences with Chaudhries for pitting their daughter-in-law Eman Waseem against him as an independent candidate. Aslam has decided to contest as an independent candidate.

Tanveer Hussain has also joined PML-F after PML-Q denied him ticket. Rana Nazir Ahmed, father of former PML-Q MNA Rana Omar Nazir, has quit PML-Q and joined PML-N. He was also PML-Q candidate from NA-99, Gujranwala.

In another development, PML-Q candidates from NA-162, Sahiwal and NA-71, Mianwali, former MNA Rai Azizullah Khan and Amanatullah Khan Shadikhel respectively, also returned tickets on Saturday but their joining of other parties or contesting as independent candidates could not be ascertained.

Shadikhel was also PML-Q candidate from PP-43, while its two candidates from PP-224 and PP-225, Waheed Asghar Dogar and Rai Murtaza, have also returned their tickets.

It is to be mentioned here that five former PML-Q MNAs joined PML-N when the opposition parties, sans PPP, quit the assemblies on October 2 in protest against President Musharraf’s election from the then assemblies.

They are Akhtar Kanju, Bilal Ijaz Virk, Ali Hassan Gilani, Shahzadi Umerzadi Tiwana and Dr Saira Tariq.

Former PML-Q MNA from NA-108, Mandi Bahauddin Ch Ijaz has again quit the party and joined PML-N due to difference with Chaudhries. He is contesting the elections on PML-N ticket.

The other former MNAs who were denied party tickets are Farooq Amjad Mir from NA-127, Saima Akhtar Bharwana from NA-90, Malik Zaheer Khokhar from NA-128, Ali Akbar Wains from NA-189, Fiaz Taman from NA-61, Tasneem Nawaz Gardazi from NA-187 and Malik Allah Yar from NA-58.

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Also:

http://thepost.com.pk/MainNews.aspx?bdtl_id=8578&fb_id=2&catid=14

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what do u expect :hehe:

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**They are lotay to the core. Charhtay sooraj kay pujaari.

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yep, all of these musharraf pml[q lotal league] crooks were very much with nawaz sharif till the day he got kicked out. Its funny to see the shameless mush apologists showing so much love for these lotaz.

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Mashallah, long live Pakistan :jhanda:

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bump, some ppl are trying their best to flood the forum with pro-mush crap to sink these topics for which they have no answers...

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the Q league is mostly lotas who were part of PML-N before musharraf came. Now musharraf regime looks like a sinking ship so now these Q league lotas are joining other parties.

I am sure in the future if we have another dictatorship, these people would again defect from their new found parties and join other Q league of the future.

Its a lotaocracy

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lolz... aray spock jee let them do... char din kee chandni hai, phir andheeri raat hai unless they flip sides to the next ruling party/politician...

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Notice on PML(Q) headquarters:

The last one to leave please turn the lights off. :rotfl:

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its not just sindh, now ist punjab, the strong point of the lota league! LOL

PML-Q in disarray in many Punjab districts
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=11786

By Tariq Butt

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) is in disarray in more than three Punjab districts, which is the main focus of its attention in the Jan 8 parliamentary elections to return to the power corridors.

The distribution of tickets and internal fighting has especially hit the districts of Attock, Chakwal and Bhakkar. All the PML-Q tickets for the three National Assembly seats of the Attock district are in a family.

Former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, his niece Eman Waseem, daughter of Maj (retd) Tahir Sadiq, the Attock district Nazim, and her husband, Waseem Gulzar, are the PML-Q nominees in the Attock district. Waseem actually hails from Mandi Bahauddin.

This is the unique district where a husband and wife are contesting on two National Assembly seats. Malik Allahyar Khan, 85, opted out for health reasons and old age from NA-58, and is satisfied with the award of the PML-Q ticket to his son, Malik Aitbar, for a Punjab Assembly seat. Pervaiz Elahi is the party candidate from this constituency.

PML-Q nominee Waseem Gulzar is contesting from NA-59, which his wife had vacated for Shaukat Aziz’s election in 2004.

Eman Gulzar is PML candidate from NA-57 which was earlier won by Malik Amin Aslam. He has rebelled against the party and is contesting as an independent. Aslam had won the NA-57 in October 2002 elections by securing 39,921 votes and defeated Hafiz Saeed of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) and Salman Sarwar, who had got 23,933 and 23,988 votes, respectively.

Previously, Malik Allahyar Khan was elected from NA-58 by bagging 88,784 votes with Malik Sohal Khan of PML-N and Iftikhar Ali Khan of PPP trailing with 41,373 and 10,302 votes respectively.

Eman Waseem had won NA-59 by getting 65,672 votes while Dr Sikandar of the PPP and Lt-Col (retd) Pervez Khan had bagged 41,674 and 12,884 votes respectively. In Chakwal district, the picture is also not encouraging for the PML-Q. Two prominent candidates, Mansoor Hayat Tamman and Faiz Tamman, who had secured a large number of votes, were ignored by the PML-Q as Pervaiz Elahi decided to contest for NA-61. Faiz had bagged 101,664 votes while Mansoor 76,171 votes in 2002. The former is now PML-N’s nominee while Mansoor PPP’s.

PML-Q candidate Maj (Retd) Tahir Iqbal, former federal minister, for the NA-60 Chakwal withdrew in favour of PML-N contestant Ayaz Amir because of party infighting in the district. Last time, Tahir had got 72,331 votes while Ayaz 70,080 votes.

The two PML-Q candidates for an equal number of National Assembly constituencies of Bhakkar have now returned the party tickets and have opted to be independents. Abdul Majeed Khan was now the PML-Q nominee for NA-73 while Rashid Akbar Nawani for NA-74.

In 2002, PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain was elected to the National Assembly from NA-74 by securing 103,508 votes. He had defeated PML-N’s Dr Afzal Dhandla. PML-Q’s Sanaullah Khan was elected from NA-73 by bagging 95,131 votes. He had defeated PML-N’s Abdul Majeed Khan.

In addition, the PML-Q has, in the words of one of its senior leaders, fielded very weak and unknown candidates for at least eleven constituencies of Lahore.

“Before allocation of PML-Q tickets for Lahore seats, I, while sitting in Lahore’s party office, asked Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain to call the candidates. I was surprised when he told me that those standing inside our room in a row were the ones who had been allotted party sponsorships,” a senior PML-Q leader told The News.

This stalwart was born and brought up in Lahore and knows who is who of the town. “I couldn’t recognize even one of them,” he said. Former commerce minister Hamayun Akhtar was going to badly lose from one Lahore constituency for obvious reasons—Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan was vying for the same NA-124 seat as the PML-N had also committed its support to him.

After Aitzaz’s withdrawal, Hamayun, with his vigorous campaign backed by massive funding, now feels comfortable to win. Abdul Haleem Khan, former Punjab minister, is another PML-Q candidate for a Lahore seat. He is being considered formidable, but has been described as controversial because of his involvement in different land deals.

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Good analysis. So therefore we know what we have to do :)

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You mean to the next dictator/ship.

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lotas back to their original toilets it seems?
but amusing to see that PPP and PML(N) accepting these ppl back.
Pakistani politics are liek WWE wrestling..cheesy but amusing.

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I guess the extereme lotas are moving places before the elections to have better prices after elections when the market will be hot. mostly moving to small parties or going independant.

now you do the maths

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Good analysis of the situation. :)

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And always predictable. "Chatraa kushtis" where no names get their bashing.

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‘Musharraf wants PML-Q govt with a PPP premier’](http://www.dawn.com/2007/12/18/top2.htm)

WASHINGTON, Dec 17: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto has said that she believes while the government would like the Pakistan Muslim League-Q to win the elections it would want a prime minister from her party.

But “the PPP will not buy into it,” she added. “They would like to say we had an election, and now we’ve got a legitimate government and we have got the country’s most popular party on board.”

In an interview to The Washington Post on Monday, Ms Bhutto said if the opposition parties won the election, they can force the government to remove the restriction that can prevent her or Nawaz Sharif from serving as a third-term prime minister.

“It depends on the numbers and also the pressure,” she said. It will also depend on whether President Pervez Musharraf “stays or goes,” she added.

Explaining her point, Ms Bhutto said if President Musharraf stays he is going to need indemnity from the new parliament against the suspension of the Constitution, which may force him to negotiate the dispute over the third term with the PPP and the PML-N.

Ms Bhutto also welcomed Mr Sharif’s decision to participate in the elections, saying that it was good for the political process and together they can prevent the government from rigging the Jan 8 elections.

Ms Bhutto recalled that when Mr Sharif returned to the country, the All Parties Democratic Movement wanted him to boycott the elections but she told him not to do so.

“I said to him … if we boycott, there is no need for them to rig the elections because they’ll win an overwhelming majority, and they’ll get to do whatever they want in parliament. But if we fight, we’ll force them to rig, and if both of us fight, they’ll have to rig really big,” she said.

“Unfortunately, he’s not been allowed to [run for office], and his brother’s not been allowed to participate, but if there’s a political process he’ll benefit” she added.

Ms Bhutto alleged that the government had set up ghost polling stations which might secure majority for the PML-Q but hoped that foreign observers could help “ensure that the ballots don’t get siphoned off.” If the observers do this, “it’ll be a huge setback to their rigging plans.”

Ms Bhutto said that the government has already planned how to give PML-Q a majority.

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**PPP concerned over unanswered rigging complaints **](http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\12\18\story_18-12-2007_pg7_14)

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission is moving at a snail pace to answer over 1,100 complaints filed by the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) about pre-poll rigging in run-up to the general elections, said party’s Central Information Secretary in a press statement on Monday.

She said the PPP was concerned over repeated attempts of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) candidates and the caretaker government for pre-poll rigging. “The administrations of NA-265 (Dera Bugti), NA-106 (Gujrat) and NA-208 (Jacobabad) have broken all previous records to influence the polls, even going to the extent of resorting to violence,” Rehman said.

She said the PPP candidate Sarfraz Ahmed Bugti was kidnapped earlier this month when he was going to file his nomination papers for NA-265.

Rehman said Qamar Zaman Kaira, the PPP candidate for NA-106, had repeatedly complained of being harassed by Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain’s guards. “Hussain, younger brother of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, is actively supporting the PML-Q candidate and has constituted a Wajahat Force that has held the entire city hostage,” she said.

She claimed that the PML-Q armed goons had also held Kaira and his supporters at gunpoint in his election camp last week. She alleged that District Police Officer Muneer Khuhro was acting as a protocol officer for the PML-Q candidate in Jacobabad and had implicated the PPP candidates Mir Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani and Mir Mumtaz Hussain Jakhrani in false cases. “The PPP candidates have also been receiving threatening phone calls from The National Accountability Bureau officials,” she alleged.

She said the incidents in Gujrat, Jacobabad and Dera Bugti were just tip of the iceberg of complaints. staff report