The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Punjab has accused the Awam Pakistan Party of trying to break the Punjab structure and pressure former party leaders to join its party. The party has strongly condemned the role of former Prime Minister and Awam Pakistan Party chief Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in making the allegation.
Central leader of MQM and joint In-charge of the inter-provincial organizational committee Zahid Malik said in a statement that the most sincere workers of MQM (who were tried to announce their joining without prior notice) not only strongly condemned the former Prime Minister and their former officials for this apolitical and immoral act but also strongly protested against this brazen act of increasing their political stature and boycotted this program (of APPK).
The party clarified that this habitual group of former officials of MQM Pakistan has announced their joining many political parties before. This group does not have any responsibility for MQM Punjab at present. By using the name of MQM, they have once again tried to create a drama, which was thwarted by sincere workers of MQM in a crowded gathering, upon which the former Prime Minister also had to leave the gathering with shame.
The statement said that MQM Punjab has already expressed its disassociation with these notorious addict groups. Zahid Malik clarified that MQM Pakistan, after the organizational work in Punjab accelerated immediately after the 2024 general elections, dissolved four zones and divided the province organizationally into eight zones.
The zones of Upper Punjab, Central Punjab and South Punjab were abolished and the South Punjab zone was included in Bahawalpur, Multan and Dera Ghazi Khan, while Central Punjab was included in Lahore, Faisalabad and Gujranwala, while in Upper Punjab Rawalpindi and Sargodha zones are included.
