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Gilani, Khattak quit PTI, join PML-N
ISLAMABAD - Former law minister and senior jurist Syed Iftikhar Hussain Gilani and former lawmaker Iftikharuddin Khattak have quit the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) to join the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), which warmly welcomed them to its folds.
Both were central leaders of the PTI and Gilani has been the Senior Vice-President of the party.
They called on PML-N president Nawaz Sharif at his Raiwind residence and announced the decision to join his party.
Gilani, a Kohat-based lawyer-cum-politician, had served as minister in Benazir Bhutto’s first Cabinet and he was unhappy over Benazir’s joining the hands with the then bureaucrat-turned-president Ghulam Ishaq Khan, though he continued to be a great admirer of Banazir.
He later joined the PML led by Nawaz Sharif but then again mover back to the PPP ranks and remained with that party until 2002, when he developed differences with Benazir over the award of party tickets for the election.
Gilani remained relatively inactive till he joined the PTI in December last year — but now he says he could not reconcile with Imran Khan’s policies on various issues.
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, Pir Sabir Shah, Mehtab Abbasi, Pervez Rashid and Amir Muqam were present on the occasion of joining of Gilani and Khattak.
Gilani said that only Nawaz could steer the country out of current crisis.
Meanwhile, former minister in the PML-Q Cabinet, Rana Shamshad Khan called on Sharif at Raiwind and announced his joining the PML-N. The PML-N president welcomed Rana in the party who expressed confidence in leadership of Sharif.
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