Sunday, September 29, 2013

KP PPP to dissolve organisations, hold intra-party polls

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter, on Saturday endorsed the suggestions of the party’s special committee to dissolve all the ward and divisional organisations of the party and hold intra-party election. Addressing a press conference at the Peshawar Press Club, PPP leader Liaqat Shabab said the special committee, formed to establish the reasons for the party’s defeat in the May 11 general election and come up with suggestions for the local government elections, has submitted its findings and suggestions to the provincial office-bearers in a meeting chaired by PPP provincial president Anwar Saifullah Khan. Flanked by party leaders Zulfiqar Afghani, Ayub Shah and Shazia Aurangzeb, he said the meeting held on Friday endorsed the suggestions of the special committee to dissolve all the ward and divisional organisations of the party in the province and hold elections for new office-bearers. He said the PPP provincial office-bearers also discussed the upcoming local government elections and decided to nominate five conveners at divisional level to look after the party’s affairs. Liaqat Shabab said Azam Khan Afridi was nominated as the convener for Peshawar division, Sher Azam Wazir for Bannu division, Ahmad Hasan Khan for Malakand, Shamroz Khan Jadoon for Hazara division and Abdus Samad Khan for Mardan division. He said the conveners were authorised to go into seat adjustment with other political parties for the upcoming local bodies’ elections in their respective areas. He said the conveners would also have the authority to nominate candidates for the local government elections. He said the PPP provincial office-bearers in the meeting passed a resolution reposing confidence in the party’s central and provincial leadership. He said they also condemned the bomb explosion on a Charsadda-bound bus and killing of 19 government employees and injuries to 46 others in the incident.

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