Will join the party that shows commitment to our cause: Khusro Bakhtiar

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LAHORE: Dissenting Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khusro Bakhtiar on Monday said that he and his group of dissenting politicians will contest the next general elections as independent candidates and will join the party that will show commitment to their cause.

He said this while talking to veteran journalist, senior analyst and Pakistan Today Editor Arif Nizami in Channel 92’s programme ‘Ho Kya Raha Hai?’

Bakhtiar said that according to a World Bank report, South Punjab had the highest rate of poverty and he had been asking the ruling party to create more jobs for the poor people of the region.

Responding to Nizami’s question, Bakhtiar said that his group had taken up the matter right before the elections because they wanted to ensure that it did not get pushed under the rug once again when a new government comes to power after the upcoming general elections.

In an earlier programme, Nizami had said that seven to eight PML-N MNAs in three Land Cruisers went to meet Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan at the residence of an unknown PTI member a few weeks ago. Khusro Bakhtiar, Bilal Ahmed Virk, and Ashiq Hussain Gopang were among those who went to meet the PTI chief.

Referring to the meeting, Nizami asked Bakhtiar if his group intended to join PTI. Bakhtiar said that PTI had asked them to join the party but they were still considering the proposal.

Later, Senator Haroon Akhtar joined the programme and said that the amnesty scheme released by the government recently had been under consideration for a while and the purpose of the scheme was to bring more people into the tax net.

Responding to Nizami’s question, he said that those who had earned money through illicit means would be excluded from the scheme.

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