PPP stalwart Imtiaz Safdar Warriach latest to ditch party, join PTI

[Kabira]

Erosion in the rank and file of the PPP in Punjab continued Friday as party stalwart Imtiaz Safdar Warraich bid adieu to Bhutto's party and joined the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI).

PTI Chairman Imran Khan welcomed Warraich into the party at a press conference at Bani Gala in Islamabad.

Warraich's switch to the PTI is the fourth major blow to the PPP’s Gujranwala division, home of the party’s central Punjab president Qamar Zaman Kaira.

Within the last one month, party stalwarts Nazar Muhammad Gondal from Mandi Bahauddin, Nawabzada Ghazanfar Ali Gul from Gujrat and Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan from Sialkot have abandoned the PPP ship. While Gul is yet to join another political party, Gondal and Dr Awan have thrown in their lot with the PTI.

PPP founding member Ghulam Mustafa Khar also joined the PTI in April this year.

Who is Imtiaz Safdar Warraich?
Born and brought up in northeastern Punjab’s Gujranwala district, Imtiaz Safdar Warraich was among the PPP’s senior members and is regarded as a veteran politician and a party stalwart.

A lawyer by profession, Warraich served as the Gujranwala District Bar Association's general secretary over 1982-1983 and was a member of the local district council from 1983-1991. He also served as the director of the Punjab Provincial Cooperative Bank Limited and was a federal minister in former premier Benazir Bhutto’s second government.

He was twice elected as an MNA, in 2002 and 2008, from NA-98, his home constituency in Gujranwala; and as MPA for the Punjab Assembly in 1993, also from a seat in the same region. After his win in 2008, Warraich served as state minister for communication.

He was also PPP’s president of Gujranwala division and appointed to the influential position of president of the party’s central Punjab chapter in 2010. His appointment as the party’s head in central Punjab was a source of disappointment for a group of PPP workers, who said Warraich could not deliver in the province, a traditional stronghold of PML-N.

Despite the trouble surrounding his term as the party’s president for central Punjab and his subsequent removal from the assignment, Warraich managed to retain his PPP ticket for the 2013 general election, once again running from NA-98 (Gujranwala-IV), but lost to PML-N's Mian Tariq Mehmood.
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[Kabira]

 

[Azeem_Ahmed]

As the election 2018 is coming near, the opportunist politicians are thinking to join effective parties.... from January to upward the more politicians will join pti and pml n... however, the ppp will be loser in the punjab and its main leader will join some other parties. the sindh related politicians obviously preferred to join ppp because that still keeps an influence in the masses.....

 

[Imad.Khan]

I am seriously against these lotas joining PTI, i hope IK knows what he is doing by taking these people in the party.
Another thing to ponder is why are all these people jumping ship, are they predicting PTI victory in the next election?

 

[asif1986]

Another thing to ponder is why are all these people jumping ship, are they predicting PTI victory in the next election?

These people feel zardari is not doing real opposition and as things stand ppp wont have much of a chance in 2018 polls.Some of these people had become inactive in ppp after 2013 polls and had made up their mind to leave the party.

 

[Mugwop]

I hope ppp falls apart and completely vanishes

 

[notorious_eagle]

I am seriously against these lotas joining PTI, i hope IK knows what he is doing by taking these people in the party.

I would agree with you but i have come to the conclusion that in order for PTI to form a federal government in the next elections, they need these electable's to win. Our people unfortunately only vote for these people, and that is why PTI needs them to win.

Another thing to ponder is why are all these people jumping ship, are they predicting PTI victory in the next election?

Two things. First, they need to oppose PML-N to stay alive in their politics and PTI offers a venue. Second, off course PTI is looking set to win the next election. NS is stuck with Panama Leaks where he is practically been caught with his pants down. Also, PML-N has failed to deliver any governance. They promised many things but failed to deliver anything. Corruption is at its peak, they have failed to curb load-shedding and IK has successfully exposed the fact that NS is a corrupt man. Even the most die hard PML-N supporters, even on this forum agree that NS is a corrupt man but they support him because they themselves are involved in corrupt line of work where bribery is the norm.

 

[Imad.Khan]

I would agree with you but i have come to the conclusion that in order for PTI to form a federal government in the next elections, they need these electable's to win. Our people unfortunately only vote for these people, and that is why PTI needs them to win.



Two things. First, they need to oppose PML-N to stay alive in their politics and PTI offers a venue. Second, off course PTI is looking set to win the next election. NS is stuck with Panama Leaks where he is practically been caught with his pants down. Also, PML-N has failed to deliver any governance. They promised many things but failed to deliver anything. Corruption is at its peak, they have failed to curb load-shedding and IK has successfully exposed the fact that NS is a corrupt man. Even the most die hard PML-N supporters, even on this forum agree that NS is a corrupt man but they support him because they themselves are involved in corrupt line of work where bribery is the norm.

I agree with you on your first statement that to win elections PTI needs these electables but on your 2nd point i don't think these people care about corruption as they themselves have been part of corruption

 

[Proudpakistaniguy]

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