Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: The Chairman of Pakistan People’s Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has decided to reorganise the party in all four provinces by replacing office bearers on important slots. The PPP will divide Punjab into two parts, namely Central Punjab and Southern Punjab, for the reorganisation purpose and separate presidents and general secretaries would be appointed for each part.

Reliable sources said that Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has decided in principal to appoint Qamar Zaman Kaira as president and Nadim Afzal as General Secretary of Central Punjab to make the party workers active. Similarly, in the Southern Punjab, former Governor Makhdoom Ahmed Mehmood will be appointed as president and Abdul Qadir Shaheen the Secretary General. Murtaza Satti might also be given some important role in Punjab.

The current president of Punjab PPP Mian Manzoor Ahmed Watoo had advised PPP’s chairman Bilawal to select his own team before the next general elections. He also said he would happily accept whatever role he would be assigned in the party. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has also taken a decision to change the presidents and general secretaries of the party in other provinces besides Punjab too. The sources said that that consultation is underway to take the seat of the President from Qaim Ali Shah and give it either to Manzoor Wasan or Agha Siraj Durrani. The weight on Wassan’s side seems to be more than Durrani’s, whereas Senator Qayyum Soomro’s name is roaming in the party’s circle for provincial General Secretary.

In the same way Bilawal is also keen to remove Sadiq Imrani from the slot of PPP’s Balochistan President and wants to appoint either Mir Baz Khan Kithran or Fateh Muhammad Hasni in his place. It is very likely that Ali Madad Jatak or Sabir Baloch may be given the position of General Secretary Balochistan.

Sources said that in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, either Zahir Shah or Azam Afridi would become provincial president in place of Senator Khanzada. Sources also told this scribe that after consultations with the senior leadership of the party, Bilawal would take his father Asif Ali Zardari into confidence after which the announcement of new party office bearers would be announced informally.

After the appointment of new party office bearers, Bilawal has plans to commence the mission of appeasing the annoyed cohorts of Benazir Bhutto to bring them back in the PPP so that the party might be strengthened before the next general elections. At present, Bilawal is eager to pay more attention to Punjab, the sources added.