Former Karachi mayor Mustafa Kamal on Friday pulled Syed Hafeezuddin, lawmaker of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Sindh Assembly, into his newly-launched Pak Sarzameen Party.
Kamal announced this while addressing a press conference at Bagh-i-Jinnah — the place where his party is planning to hold a public gathering on April 24.
At the start of the press conference, Kamal welcomed Hafeezuddin to his political party.
Speaking at the occasion, Hafeezuddin said “Turkey’s current president was once the mayor of Istanbul and he turned it into an economic centre — not just for the Muslim world but also for Europe.”
“That is how I want Mustafa Kamal to lead this nation,” he maintained.
Talking about why he resigned from PTI, Hafeezuddin said PTI was established in Karachi after a lot of struggle, but the party didn’t do anything despite registering internal complaints.
He also pointed out that during local bodies polls, PTI candidates left those constituencies from where it had won over 50,000 votes in general elections.
Hafeezuddin also termed the opposition in Sindh Assembly as toothless.
Earlier this week, member of Mutahidda Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) coordination committee Iftikhar Akbar Randhawa had joined the ranks of Pak Sarzameen Party.
Hafeezuddin is the first PTI’s leader to join Kamal’s newly launched party.
He announced his resignation from PTI’s membership and subsequently from the membership of Sindh Assembly.
Reacting to Hafeezuddin’s resignation from the party, PTI leader Ali Zaidi said that after investigations of alleged corruption and partiality against Hafeezuddin, PTI Chairman Imran Khan had already approved his dismissal from the party.