Zubair Qureshi Islamabad
Former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Monday approached the Election Commission of Pakistan for the registration of a new political party whose name, however, he has not yet revealed.
Along with the application, Abbasi, who was accompanied by a number of supporters and party workers, had attached the documents and papers required for the registration of a new political party.
“We’re registering the party as per the Election Act 2017 and will actively participate in the next elections,” he said.
Abbasi, Miftah Ismail and Muhammad Zubair, the three senior leaders of the PML-N and the Pakistan People’s Party’s disgruntled Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar are no longer active—have been in the news lately expressing their disenchantment and disillusion against the current political system and the politics of dynasty.
Prior to the Feb 9 elections, they had voiced their differences with their respective parties announcing they would soon formally part ways with them and launch a new political party which would truly represent aspersions of the people and give a voice to the voiceless.
In August, 2023, Khaqan took aim at his own government for eroding people’s trust in the system, calling the National Assembly of that time the worst in the country’s history.
For his clear defiance, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was also removed from the PML-N’s office of Chief Organizer and was also deprived of the PML-N’s ticket for the general elections of Feb 9, 2024.
