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Fissures deepen in PPP Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - DAWN.COM
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Peoples Party is feared to suffer from further grouping in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa if its central leadership fails to address the grievances of senior activists in different districts of the province.
The PPP workers complain that central leadership has abandoned the party in the province. They say that leadership imposes office-bearers on them instead of giving weight to the views of local units of the party.
Some senior workers are also not happy with the statements issued by PPP patron-in-chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari against Taliban. They say that this policy can create serious threats for them, particularly during the next elections.
Some insiders told Dawn that the replacement of provincial presidents without taking activists into confidence had caused rift in the party in the province. It could be judged easily from the fact that several leaders were not ready to obey the orders of PPP newly nominated provincial president Khan Zada Khan, they added.
“First the provincial president was changed without taking us into confidence and now we are asked to form electoral alliance with Awami National Party and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl in the province but it is impossible for the party to do so,” they said.
Sources said that one of the main causes of PPP’s defeat in the last general elections was its coalition government with ANP in the province where its workers were ignored while its partner focussed on strengthening its organisations in different areas.
“We are not ready to vote for ANP or JUI-F. Our priority will be to field independent candidates in the local government elections,” a PPP leader said. He said that formation of a splinter group by Begum Nasim Wali Khan had damaged ANP and it was trying to cover up its dents through such tactics.
The PPP leader said that Khan Zada Khan himself was aware of the situation and knew that many senior workers and former lawmakers of the party were not ready to support him but he could not surrender as it was a matter of honour for him.
Second option for all the disgruntled PPP workers will be Naheed Khan, former political secretary of Benazir Bhutto, who has become active to reorganise them, according to insiders.
“The real heirs of Bhutto are Fatima Bhutto and her brother Zulfiqar Junior, children of Murtaza Bhutto, and they will be the future leaders of the party,” said a PPP worker.
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What do you guys thinks about the bold? As many of you know PPP has been reduced to basically Sindh, so is there any hope for the party to reform? Can Fatima Bhutto or Zulfiqar save the party?
Or maybe some non Bhutto progressive in the party?
@Armstrong @Marshmallow @Talon @Leader @Oscar @Aeronaut @Hyperion @cb4 @W.11
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Peoples Party is feared to suffer from further grouping in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa if its central leadership fails to address the grievances of senior activists in different districts of the province.
The PPP workers complain that central leadership has abandoned the party in the province. They say that leadership imposes office-bearers on them instead of giving weight to the views of local units of the party.
Some senior workers are also not happy with the statements issued by PPP patron-in-chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari against Taliban. They say that this policy can create serious threats for them, particularly during the next elections.
Some insiders told Dawn that the replacement of provincial presidents without taking activists into confidence had caused rift in the party in the province. It could be judged easily from the fact that several leaders were not ready to obey the orders of PPP newly nominated provincial president Khan Zada Khan, they added.
“First the provincial president was changed without taking us into confidence and now we are asked to form electoral alliance with Awami National Party and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl in the province but it is impossible for the party to do so,” they said.
Sources said that one of the main causes of PPP’s defeat in the last general elections was its coalition government with ANP in the province where its workers were ignored while its partner focussed on strengthening its organisations in different areas.
“We are not ready to vote for ANP or JUI-F. Our priority will be to field independent candidates in the local government elections,” a PPP leader said. He said that formation of a splinter group by Begum Nasim Wali Khan had damaged ANP and it was trying to cover up its dents through such tactics.
The PPP leader said that Khan Zada Khan himself was aware of the situation and knew that many senior workers and former lawmakers of the party were not ready to support him but he could not surrender as it was a matter of honour for him.
Second option for all the disgruntled PPP workers will be Naheed Khan, former political secretary of Benazir Bhutto, who has become active to reorganise them, according to insiders.
“The real heirs of Bhutto are Fatima Bhutto and her brother Zulfiqar Junior, children of Murtaza Bhutto, and they will be the future leaders of the party,” said a PPP worker.
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What do you guys thinks about the bold? As many of you know PPP has been reduced to basically Sindh, so is there any hope for the party to reform? Can Fatima Bhutto or Zulfiqar save the party?
Or maybe some non Bhutto progressive in the party? @Armstrong @Marshmallow @Talon @Leader @Oscar @Aeronaut @Hyperion @cb4 @W.11
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They are talking like inserting a monarchy in Pakistan....
