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Abdul Latif elected as District President of Pakistan Tahreek Insaf

By Zahiruddin

CHITRAL: The Chitral chapter of Pakistan Tahreek Insaf sharply divided into two factions when the elections to the district offices were boycotted by wing commander (retired) Fardad Ali Shah and his supporters who termed the process as farce while Abdul Latif was unanimously elected as district president.

The supporters of Fardad Ali Shah, led by Amanullah, Gulfaraz Khan, Muhammad Zabar Khan and others addressing a press conference alleged that those holding elections were not authorized to do it by the higher leadership but they are doing it to get themselves elected office-bearers by shady means.

They said that elections should be held in transparent manner and there should be well defined electoral college while in the present drama of elections, only the hand picked workers have been called to cast their votes.

They said that the two aspirants to the office of district president, Fardad Ali Shah and Haji Sultan Muhammad were not present in the district and seizing this opportunity, Mr. Abdul Latif staged the drama of elections to get himself elected.

They have demanded of the provincial and central leadership to annul the elections and send a committee to Chitral to hold the elections afresh otherwise the party will face a severe setback in the district.

Meanwhile, Abdul Latif refuted the allegations of his rivals and claimed that the elections were fair and he had been authorized by the provincial leadership to hold the elections and that the proper announcements to this effect had also been made a week before.

He said that the party workers were united under a single banner and there was no fissure in its ranks.

He said that he was elected as president in accordance with the aspirations of the sincere workers of the party and will try his level best to rise to the occasion and render the party an indomitable political entity in the district.

Mr. Latif said that the right of voting was given to those workers who had membership forms duly issued by the competent authority of the party.