In a meeting between a representative of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) student federation and a senior party member, the former expressed extreme dissatisfaction at the treatment meted out to the student wing of the party, threatening to form a new political party if they were not given “what is rightfully ours”.
Muslim Students Federation-N (MSF-N) Chief Organiser Sardar Mohsin Abbasi met PML-N leader Raja Zafarul Haq on Saturday and demanded “respect” in the party.
He complained that the members of MSF-N were not given representation in either the party’s Central Working Committee (CWC) or Central Executive Committee (CEC) — PML-N’s main decision-making bodies.
“We should be given what is rightfully ours, or we will take the MSF and create another party with its members,” Abbasi threatened at one point, adding that the party senior leadership was accusing them of acting emotionally when they were only telling the truth – as the senior leadership had itself asked them to.
“What standing does the MSF even have in the party? You tell us,” he asked Raja Zafarul Haq.
He also expressed the youth wing’s reservations on other matters.
He demanded to know why the Khatam-e-Nabuwwat oath was changed in the Elections Act 2017, saying that it did not matter whether what happened was by mistake or deliberate. “Our people are asking us why they should ruin their faith for the sake of Nawaz Sharif,” he said.
He complained that following the blunder in the Elections Act 2017, the youth wing of the party had been left with “nothing to offer our people as politics.”
“We will start protesting if we are not given our rights,” he warned.
