With plans to make South Punjab separate province, 8 PML-N leaders quit party

Vowing to make South Punjab a separate province, eight Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) leaders announced on M

Published April 9, 2018 Updated April 9, 2018 12:15pm

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By Aisha Mahmood

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Vowing to make South Punjab a separate province, eight Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) leaders announced on Monday their decision to quit the party.

The senior leaders, who are members of national and provincial assemblies, include Khusro Bakhtiar, Tariq Iqbal, Rana Muhammad Qasim and Basit Bukhari. Of the eight senior leaders, two are MPAs and the rest are MNAs.

The former PML-N leaders announced that they were leaving the party and claimed that their one-point agenda is the creation of a separate province for southern Punjab. “Poverty rates are higher than 51% in southern Punjab,” Bakhtiar said, while stating that they will create a new separate province for southern Punjab.

On the other hand, both the two MPAs - Ali Asghar Manda and Tariq Mehmood Bajwa - have announced that they will contest the next general elections as independent candidates.

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