Daily Times

PESHAWAR: The re-organisation of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) for the slots of district, divisional and provincial level office bearers, was completed on Sunday and the caretaker organising committee will send the proposed names to the party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, for the final decision.

The caretaker organising committee established in March of the current year aimed at re-organisation of the PPP and curbing workers’ differences on the grassroots level.

A party source said that the list of the candidates, for the office bearers of divisional and provincial presidents had been blueprinted after a lengthy consultation among the committee members here on Sunday.

A senior member of the PPP told Daily Times on the condition of anonymity that the party chairman was expected to announce the names for the president of the provinces and the divisions next month at the time of his arrival to KP.

It is pertinent to mention here that the PPP General Secretary Mohammad Humayun Khan, Information Secretary Liaquat Shabab, Rahimdad Khan, Azam Afridi, Syed Ayub Shah, Farzand Ali Khan Wazir, Gohar Inqilabi, Shah Zulqarnain, Samiullah Khan, Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Tila Mohammad, Advocate Akbar Khan, Shazia Tahmas, Mehr Sultana and Naseeb Chand attended the meeting in March for the establishment of the caretaker committee to re-organise the structure of the party in the province.

Senior Members of PPP Syed Ayub Shah, Advocate Akbar Khan and Liaqat Shabab were supervising the reorganisation of the party in Peshawar at the ward, tehsil, union council and district levels.

Similarly, Rahimdad Khan, Samad Khan Turo and Gohar Inqilabi were given the mandate for the supervision of re-organisation of the party in Mardan while for Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan divisions, the duty was assigned to Rahimdad Khan, Mohammad Humayun Khan and Farzand Ali Khan Wazir.

Another committee comprising Azam Afridi, MPA Sahibzada Sanaullah and MPA Mohammad Ali Shah, have been nominated by the party chairman to resolve issues among party workers in all the districts of Malakand division while former governor Barrister Masood Kausar, Humayun Khan and Liaquat Shabab undertook the reorganisation of the party in Kohat division.

The source said: “Readdressing the grievances of the workers, strong accountability inside the party, intra-party election and revitalisation of political secretariats on the divisional level would be the major tasks of the new set-up”.

He also revealed that youth representation had been given priority in the new set-up which had been ignored during the course of the last provincial cabinet.

“The names of the candidates will be made public by the PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari during his visit to the province in September” the source said.