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Is PML-N being merged into PML?
 The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leadership is facing excessive difficulties in selecting new PML-N provincial presidents and general secretaries to re-organise the party before the local body elections and it is likely that party may merge into ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML), sources told Daily Times on Sunday. PML-N President Mian Shahbaz Sharif had dissolved the party's central and provincial organisations in December 2004 and promised to select new leadership within 45 days, but sources claimed that no effort had been made so far in selecting new leaders. After Shahbaz's departure to New York and in the light of government's reconciliation offer to the opposition, former provincial leaders think that the time of merger has arrived. However, other party sources rejected the proposal of PML-N's merger into PML and said that Sharif brothers were facing problems in the appointment of new leaders because of a power tussle between former PML-N Punjab president Zulifiqar Ali Khan Khosa and former secretary general Khawaja Saad Rafique. Sources said that Nawaz Sharif had informed Rafique in November 2004 that the provincial leadership was not satisfied with his performance and was likely to replace him. Posted by: Fred 2005-01-23 |
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