New political party in the offing: Report
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad is abuzz with reports about the launch of a new political party, said a report.
It said politicians from different parties are being contacted to form a new party. However, there is no confirmation of these reports from any reliable source. The names of Pakistan Muslim League-nawaz (PML-N) leaders including former prime minister Shahid Khakan Abbasi and former finance minister Mitah Ismail, are being discussed as those joining the party, the report said.
About Abbasi, it has been speculated in the social media that he had resigned from the PML-N. However, he said that this was totally untrue. He has neither resigned from the PML-N nor is he part of any move for the launch of a new political party.
Abbasi said that he is receiving a lot of phone calls and messages ater someone had speculated on social media that he had resigned from the PML-N. He explained that they were organising a series of seminars which possibly made the people speculate about the formation of a new political party.
Ismail also denied it and said that how a person like him, who lost two elections in Karachi, could form a political party. Regarding Abbasi, he denied that the former prime minister had resigned from the PML-N. Ismail also said that some people may be thinking of forming a new political party ater he and some other like-minded friends, including politicians, are holding seminars in all the provincial capitals and Islamabad.
He explained that there was no hidden agenda of these seminars which, he insisted, are being organised to facilitate consensus on issues which seriously concern Pakistan. He said that leaders from different political parties are invited to attend these seminars for building a consensus on national issues.
Ismail has also tweeted about it. He announced that friends like Abbasi, Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, Fawad Hasan Fawad, Khawaja Mohammad Hoti, Haji Lashkari Raisani, Asad Shams and many others are trying to bring about national consensus on major issues.
“Thus we are starting with holding seminars across Pakistan to highlight the issues facing ordinary Pakistanis and their solutions. Ater 75 years, we have: Half the children not in school; 40 per cent children stunted; 18 per cent children wasted; 28 per cent underweight; 5.5 million new children born every year; 80 million people below poverty; majority population unable to afford life saving surgery; high unemployment, inefficiencies causing high rates of electricity.