Musharaf's Spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry Joins PPP

[insaftak]

LAHORE: In a surprise switchover of loyalties, the former media coordinator of Pervez Musharraf’s All Pakistan Muslim League has decided to join the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party.

“A two-party system is entrenched in the country, which is why we have decided to go back to our parent party,” Fawad, who made the decision along with his uncle Chaudhry Shahbaz, told The Express Tribune. A formal announcement will be made in the next few days, he said.

His uncle Shahbaz is currently the APML’s chief coordinator.
Fawad had resigned as the media coordinator of the APML in January, leading to rumours that he may be defecting to the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, which has recently welcomed several political heavyweights.

Fawad and Shahbaz have already met PPP co-chairman President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to amicably settle their long-standing issues with the PPP.

“My uncle Chaudhry Altaf, a member of the PPP, remained governor of the Punjab from 1993 to 1997, so our roots lie with the PPP,” Fawad said.

When asked about reports of his negotiations with the PTI, he referred to the example of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid dissident Marvi Memon saying that she had joined PML-Nawaz as she aware of the country’s political scenario. “Results of recent elections have shown that only a two-party can survive.”

But, he said, he had preferred PPP over PML-N as he believed it was a more liberal, visionary and progressive party.

But sources within the PTI said that the party’s senior vice president Hamid Khan had had reservations over welcoming Fawad in the fold, as he often criticised the chief justice of Pakistan.

Fawad’s constituency is Jhelum district where, in 2002, his uncle won a seat on a PML-Q ticket and served as a federal minister. But Fawad established links with Musharraf and was a founding member of the APML. In the next general election, Fawad and Shahbaz will contest on the PPP’s tickets.

But a dispute occurred between Musharraf and Fawad when the APML chief, despite Fawad’s opposition, announced that he will be returning to Pakistan. Fawad had said that, as the party’s media coordinator, he will not be able to defend the APML should Musharraf back out of his commitment.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/347357/musharrafs-former-mediaman-switches-over-to-ppp/

This was confirmed by Zaid65 in who's joining PTI thread.

 

[insaftak]

Fawad Chaudry is set to join PTI, the only issue is, Hamid Khan does not want him to be in the party.

Imran talks about fawad chaudhry and marvi memon after 10.30 mark

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Imran Khan confirms this in post # 1522.

to zaid65. you have some serious connections bro.

 

[ahsan88]

Whattay addition to the party.

 

[insaftak]

Focus on Punjab-I: Local politics dressed up as nationalCyril Almeida | Front Page | From the Newspaper November 10, 2011
JHELUM: The GT Road’s reputation as Sharif country was forged in the urban, middle-class trading and small-business communities that dot this famous 16th century highway. But even in this sleepy, largely rural martial district in northern Punjab, the PML-N appears to be the party to beat.

In 2008, the PML-N won all six of the seats in Jhelum district, two MNAs and four MPAs. (One MPA, Muhammad Saqlain, was elected as an independent but with the support of the N-League). The sweep was unprecedented, surpassing even the results of the ZAB era in the 1970s.

And yet, the view from the constituency level is markedly different.

While national political trends play a significant role and candidates compete aggressively for party tickets, for the most part the politics of Jhelum is rooted in biradirism (kinship and clan associations), dharras (political groupings) and personalities.

So dominant are these local factors that politics here has been reduced to a pithy sound bite by locals: Raja vs anti-Raja.

The Rajas are the powerful group led by Raja Afzal, a septuagenarian who has installed his sons as MNAs and is regarded by one and all as the real powerbroker in the district. Entering politics in 1985 and eventually displacing the Rajas of Darapur as the leader of the Rajputs, Mr Afzal has proved a master of the art of local politics.

The Raja dharra — lashed together by Mr Afzal through a combination of skill, ruthlessness and political savvy — consists of several overlapping voter groups: large parts of the Rajput biradiri; voters for whom Mr Afzal has manipulated the
thanna/katcheri (police and courts) system to their advantage; and the PML-N voter in the urban areas.

The anti-Raja group is headed by Chaudhry Farrukh Altaf, a two-term district nazim under Gen Musharraf and son of the late Governor of Punjab Altaf Hussain. Belonging to the Jat biradiri and aligned with the PML-Q, Farrukh Altaf has an unfortunate track record of losing elections, though supporters maintain his core group, the Chaudhrys’ dharra, is as strong as Raja Afzal’s.

Building a dharra

From his elaborately decorated drawing room in Jhelum city, Farrukh Altaf explained the foundation of electoral success in the district: “You can’t win anything without maintaining links at the local level. Sometimes I have 20 weddings a day to attend. Funerals are also important. Then you have to answer your phone. Voters demand direct access. Someone’s Wapda bill is excessive, someone else can’t get a child admitted to school, someone wants a traffic challan waived off or has an issue with a patwari. Everyone wants to know, can my candidate deliver?”

Perhaps no politician has delivered as consistently in the recent history of Jhelum as Raja Afzal. Friend and foe alike described Mr Afzal as a formidable politician, knowing when a soft touch is required and when to deploy the full force of the state and local machinery for personal and political gain. Mr Afzal was away performing Haj and unavailable for comment.

According to Kenan Ahmed Raja, a PML-N organiser in Jhelum city: “The great thing about the buzurg (old man) is that he may not get your work done, but he’ll treat you with respect. That matters.”

Kayani, of Sohawa tehsil, said: “The ‘other castes’, the agricultural workers and service classes, are probably the most numerous here. Before they were told, ‘You belong to us, you vote for us’. But Raja Afzal refers to them as ‘bhai’ and goes to their homes. Even though they are rich now, they still have a non-caste complex, so they are happy when a Raja comes to their house and they become his supporters.”

PML-N infighting
Winning over voters is one thing, fending off rivals, even those on the same party ticket, is another.

“The story in Jhelum is Raja Afzal versus his MPAs,” according to Ayaz Amir, MNA in neighbouring Chakwal district. “Afzal tends to dominate his MPAs and they react, but he’s close to Nawaz Sharif,” Amir added.

The MPAs’ animosity towards Afzal is barely contained. MPA Chaudhry Nadeem Khadim, a scion of a leader in the fractious Gujjar community, said: “Raja Afzal is corrupt. Taking money, grabbing land, I’m not interested in this kind of politics. I’d rather leave politics than be on same ticket as Raja Afzal.”

He added: “I have good relations with Shahbaz Sharif and have a strong following among the Gujjars. I intend to intend to get a PML-N ticket for the national assembly seat and win.”

Another MPA, Chaudhry Muhammad Saqlain, an outspoken Jat politician with an independent streak, was also scathing: “Raja Afzal has restarted that old politics of looting and theft, land grabbing and narcotics peddling. The voters are sick of it.”As long as Raja Afzal enjoys the support of Nawaz Sharif, however, it is unlikely he will face a serious challenge from within the PML-N.

Potentially more problematic is if the disgruntled MPAs carry their support bases to the Farrukh Altaf camp.

Switching sides is fairly common: in 2008, Muhammad Saqlain, the MPA, supported Afzal’s son on a National Assembly ticket with the sole purpose, by Saqlain’s own admission, of defeating the Farrukh Altaf candidate on the MPA seat through reciprocal support from the PML-N/Afzal group.

Now, if a joint Saqlain-Altaf candidate is fielded in the next election and he defeats the Afzal camp, on paper it would be chalked up as a defeat for the PML-N. But in reality it would have little to do with national politics.

PPP, PML-Q and PTI
An additional concern for the Raja Afzal group is the seat-adjustment deal between the PPP and PML-Q. “The PML-N can only be challenged if there is a strong candidate from Q or PPP,” according to Ayaz Amir. The poll numbers also suggest so.

In the 2008 election, in NA-62, the combined PML-Q and PPP vote was 81,500, just 11,000 short of the winning PML-N candidate, Raja Safdar, who got 92,500. In NA-63, the combined PML-Q-PPP vote was 76,000, just a few thousand shy of the nearly 80,000 that Raja Asad, the other son of Raja Afzal, won.

With the PPP’s individual position weak — party candidates contesting the NA seats got just 10-15 per cent of the votes polled in 2008 — the Farrukh Altaf camp will likely field its own candidates on the PML-Q ticket.

According to Altaf, given the ‘synergies’ in the PPP-PML-Q vote bank in Jhelum — his father was once allied with the PPP and as governor helped engineer the ouster of the Sharif-led government in Punjab in the early 1990s — the switch for voters from PPP to PML-Q would not be very problematic.

Of course, if the PTI earthquake in Lahore is repeated in northern Punjab, all bets are off. Could the Farrukh Altaf group ditch the PML-Q for PTI tickets if the possibility arose?

Farrukh Altaf’s response to why he was still aligned with the PML-Q was telling: “Because the PPP is weak here.” With the PML-N ticket stitched up by Raja Afzal and the PPP no longer a very attractive prospect in Jhelum, the PML-Q is home by
default for the Farrukh Altaf group. Until, that is, a more enticing prospect comes along, like the PTI.

While rivals calculate feverishly, the man who will be the most confident ahead of the next elections in Jhelum is Raja Afzal. A repeat of the 2008 sweep for the PML-N/Afzal group seems unlikely because the national-mood factor is no longer in the N-League’s favour, but Afzal has the skill, support and resources necessary to engineer wins in several constituencies of this predominantly rural district.

“Ultimately, the politics of Jhelum is about the politics of biradiri,” according to Fawad Chaudhry, a close relative of Farrukh Altaf. “Rajput versus Jat and the Gujjars playing the swing vote. It’s always been that way.”

With Rajas in Pocket of PML(N) and the Jats with PPP this insurers brand new candidates of PTI in District Jehlum.

 

[insaftak]

Whattay addition to the party.

insaftak missed the news it seems ..bump for geetugaray

^^

Seen the news bro. It's just that I haven't been hearing good things about Fawad Chaudhry from my other geetugarys from Jehlum.

I don't know if they are because Fawad isn't a Raja or those are genuine reasons not to support him. Waisey Raja mein be hoon. I hope they investigate everything before letting him in or better yet give party ticket to someone else in Jehlum.

Chalo meri thori Izzat Reh gai mere Geetugarys from Jehlum ke samney

 

[insaftak]

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are they even eligible to vote ). Youth to kick some serious behind in Jehlum.

 

[CORNERED-TIGER]

 

[AnotherIndian]

Barak Obama also joined PTI?

(Referring to the guy in the corner of the picture wearing Black pant and shirt)

 

[waqar_ahmad]

Very good news.

I didnt want him to join PTI.

Imran wanted him, Hamid Khan didnt. Shows that decisions within PTI are not taken by one man.

 

[themask1]

Thanks hamid khan.

 

[UmarAkmals-fan]

mushi muct be sad ..today half of his party has left him

 

[zimmz]

Would have been good for PTI to tackle the PMLN badmaash but it's ok PTI is doing well on media these days.

 

[PetroDollars]

mushi muct be sad ..today half of his party has left him

Who are the other?

Fawad was good in the media and thats where it ends, he was a secular liberal and it seems Mush took him out of decison making meetings and he got vexed with that... He always had the mindset of PPP, 'jamooriyat, jamooriyat, jamooriyat' He was never going to get along with Mush or IK, the only reason he was looking to PTI was just because of the popularity otherwise he is a hardcore secular punk.

 

[TalentSpotterPk]

Fawad Chaudhary


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">They are bent upon ruining the parliamentary traditions. Clueless lot of streetboys having no knowledge whatsoever about the way parliamentary institutions are run. And guess what, their sponsors are glad to see this destruction! <a href="https://t.co/n3Fwyo0vSK">https://t.co/n3Fwyo0vSK</a></p>— Marvi Sirmed (@marvisirmed) <a href="https://twitter.com/marvisirmed/status/1047668430177034240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[TalentSpotterPk]

Fawad is given the role to defame democrats like Nehal Hashmi, Pervez Rasheed, Rana Sana ullah and Mushahidullah Khan.

Sole purpose is to Silence them by this.


Fawad’s lies fed to him by his Masters got destroyed in Senate by Mushahidullah Khan. Historic Speech


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">One can disagree with Sen Mushahidullah Khan on a hundred things. But in his speech on the floor of the House in Senate yesterday, he simply rocked. Here's the full speech for those interested. <a href="https://t.co/rl18n70Kc0">https://t.co/rl18n70Kc0</a></p>— Marvi Sirmed (@marvisirmed) <a href="https://twitter.com/marvisirmed/status/1045887936766652416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Bewal Express]

Fawad is given the role to defame democrats like Nehal Hashmi, Pervez Rasheed, Rana Sana ullah and Mushahidullah Khan.

Sole purpose is to Silence them by this.


Fawad’s lies fed to him by his Masters got destroyed in Senate by Mushahidullah Khan. Historic Speech


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">One can disagree with Sen Mushahidullah Khan on a hundred things. But in his speech on the floor of the House in Senate yesterday, he simply rocked. Here's the full speech for those interested. <a href="https://t.co/rl18n70Kc0">https://t.co/rl18n70Kc0</a></p>— Marvi Sirmed (@marvisirmed) <a href="https://twitter.com/marvisirmed/status/1045887936766652416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

You mean Rana the Qatil, Mushahidullah the PIA looter, You mean Pervaiz my Wudhu will break, if i say Sussex? Do the Nooras have single decent honest person?

 

[King-Misbah]

Fawad is given the role to defame democrats like Nehal Hashmi, Pervez Rasheed, Rana Sana ullah and Mushahidullah Khan.

Sole purpose is to Silence them by this.


Fawad’s lies fed to him by his Masters got destroyed in Senate by Mushahidullah Khan. Historic Speech


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">One can disagree with Sen Mushahidullah Khan on a hundred things. But in his speech on the floor of the House in Senate yesterday, he simply rocked. Here's the full speech for those interested. <a href="https://t.co/rl18n70Kc0">https://t.co/rl18n70Kc0</a></p>— Marvi Sirmed (@marvisirmed) <a href="https://twitter.com/marvisirmed/status/1045887936766652416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Democrats lol You have stooped so low pal. These degenerates wouldnt even know the definition of a democrat lol Rana Qatil, Rana Patwari and PIA loader Mushaidullah.

 

[asifp]

Fawad is given the role to defame democrats like Nehal Hashmi, Pervez Rasheed, Rana Sana ullah and Mushahidullah Khan.

Sole purpose is to Silence them by this.


Fawad’s lies fed to him by his Masters got destroyed in Senate by Mushahidullah Khan. Historic Speech


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">One can disagree with Sen Mushahidullah Khan on a hundred things. But in his speech on the floor of the House in Senate yesterday, he simply rocked. Here's the full speech for those interested. <a href="https://t.co/rl18n70Kc0">https://t.co/rl18n70Kc0</a></p>— Marvi Sirmed (@marvisirmed) <a href="https://twitter.com/marvisirmed/status/1045887936766652416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I tried to listen to his speech, but could not get beyond the first 5 mins.

The math logic he talked about the debt was so ridiculous that I just had to stop.

 

[saeedhk]

Fawad is given the role to defame democrats like Nehal Hashmi, Pervez Rasheed, Rana Sana ullah and Mushahidullah Khan.

Sole purpose is to Silence them by this.


Fawad’s lies fed to him by his Masters got destroyed in Senate by Mushahidullah Khan. Historic Speech


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">One can disagree with Sen Mushahidullah Khan on a hundred things. But in his speech on the floor of the House in Senate yesterday, he simply rocked. Here's the full speech for those interested. <a href="https://t.co/rl18n70Kc0">https://t.co/rl18n70Kc0</a></p>— Marvi Sirmed (@marvisirmed) <a href="https://twitter.com/marvisirmed/status/1045887936766652416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Rana is a democrat? The guy who is a known murderer to say the least.

 

[Hitman]

I have seen some of his debates from the past on youtube. The man definitely made a lot of sense with his debates that I watched.

 

[Bewal Express]

Democrats lol You have stooped so low pal. These degenerates wouldnt even know the definition of a democrat lol Rana Qatil, Rana Patwari and PIA loader Mushaidullah.

Thats what desperation does to you. The PTI has made mistakes and will do so, thats what happens when you govern, but when this idiot quotes Gul Bukhari, or reminds us of these Qatils, Looter and loser, you know why people voted for IK.

 

[Waseem]

Democrats like Nihal, Rana Sanaullah, Pervez Rashid and Mushahidllah Bas kar jao yaar kis had tak girna hai?

All these worst crooks and criminals, most are foul mouthed and corrupt nobodies and look at the support they are getting.

This is the reason i absolutely hate idiots like Marvi Sirmed and likes

Ab Sanaullah Lashkar e Jahngvi ka badmaash nahi raha?
Ab Mushaihullah abusive aur corrupt nahi raha?
Ab Nawaz Sharif takht e Lahore ka symbol aur Zia ka beta nahi raha?

How low would these people stoop?