PTI’s sit-in against drone attacks today

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) will stage sit-in in Peshawar tomorrow (Saturday) in protest against US’s drone attacks on Pakistani soil, Geo News reported.

Besides, Imran Khan, the chief of PTI, some other political leaders and member civil society will also speak on the occasion.

Secretary Information PTI Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter, Zahid Hussain, briefed media at the venue where PTI will stage sit-in.Briefing media, he said PTI activists from all over country will gather at Naran Garden in Hayatabad area on Saturday morning, commencing sit-in to register protest with the government against US’s drone attacks on Pakistani land and would continue till Sunday evening.“

A caravan comprising PTI’s activists, led by chief Imran Khan, will leave for Peshawar from Islamabad on Saturday morning at 9am, ” he informed. PTI’s activists from Hazara Division will join Imran Khan-led caravan at Hassan Abdal place while more activists will join them at Attock, Jehangirah and Nowshera places, he revealed.

All political parties except the government’s coalition partners have been invited to join sit-in, he added.

Women Wing celebrated 15th Anniversary of Punjab Office

Lahore April 15th:  Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf Women Wing celebrated the 15^th anniversary of the party at the Punjab office Lahore where President Punjab cut a cake to mark the occasion.

It was appreciated that the party had gained tremendously through the hard work and persistence of those who have had the same vision as Chairman Imran Khan in bringing about a real change in the country. It has been a long and tough process but  PTI has remained true to its convictions and it is the reason that our message has penetrated into the hearts of every citizen. Everyone believes that rule of law is imperative and that we must implement a system that is just and equal for all. Today PTI’s credibility and respect amongst people across every strata of society cannot be denied. We are the real opposition and we speak in the interest of the common man. Other party’s are feeling threatened by the popularity and are once again trying their best to discredit and malign the party leader as they had done this previously with vicious rumors and blatant lies.   

The upcoming ‘dharna’ to be held in Peshawar was also discussed as the drone attacks and death of over 32,000 civilians and army personnel is seen as a critical situation which has no end in sight unless the people lodge their protest against these attacks that are taking innocent lives of children, women and the aged in KPK.

Present at the function were all office bearers of the wing Talath Naqvi Information Secretary Punjab Deputy Information Secretary Aneela Malik, Regiona Organiser Lahore Dr Nousheen Hamid Miraj, Deputy Regional Organiser Shahnaz perveen, District Organiser Lahore Sadia Sohail, Joint Secretaries  Lahore Ayesha Khalid and  Sobia Kamal , Fouzia Aamer Khan Organiser Iqbal Town, Executive members Neelam Rashid Malik, Sarwat Saleem and other members were part of the celebrations.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

Secretary-General	Arif Alvi
Founder	Imran Khan
Senior Vice President	Hamid Khan
Vice President	Ejaz Chaudhry Admiral Jawaid Iqbal Shahid Zulfiqar Ali Yusuf Malik Gabol
Women Wing President	Fauzia Kasuri
Central Information Secretary	Omar Sarfaraz Cheema
Central Finance Secretary	Sardar Azhar Tariq Khan
Slogan	Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem
Founded	April 25, 1996[1]
Headquarters	PTI Central Secretariat. 2, Street No. 84, Sector G-6/4 Islamabad, Pakistan
Student wing	Insaf Student Federation
Research Wing	Insaf Research Wing
Women Wing	PTI Women Wing
Ideology	Islamic democracy
National affiliation	All Parties Democratic Movement
Official colors	Green and red
Election symbol
Balance [2]
Website
insaf.pk
Party flag
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Zahid Kazmi responds to Ch Nisar address in Parliament

The Spokesman for the PTI Zahid Kazmi has accused the PML-N leadership of meeting the army generals on the sly in the darkness of night while criticising them in daylight in a press statement issued here today he said that the PML-N was involved in the release of Raymond Davis and it cannot hoodwink the general public by feigning ignorance in the matter.

Mr Kazmi said that after seeing that the PTI was going to stage a sit-in in Peshawar on the 23rd and 24rth of this month against the drone attacks, the Punjab chief minister has also started criticising drone attacks for the first time.

The PTI leader advised the PML-N leadership that instead of finding fault with Imran Khan. They had better control rampant corruption and incidence of crime in Punjab.

10 chapters ready for elections in PTI USA; Candidates announced and membership lists opened

The office of international affairs has announced the candidates for the 10 chapters ready for elections in PTI USA. These include Atlanta, Virginia, Dallas, Houston, California, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Seattle and Arlington. The chapters which has only one candidate for a particular position, endorsement from voters of the chapter will be sought whereas the chapters where positions are being contested (Seattle, Pennsylvania) choice of candidates will be given in the e-ballot.

The membership lists will now be opened to candidates for campaign purpose. The deadline for the campaign is 18th April 2011. The e-ballot will be sent to members on 18th April 2011 and responses will be allowed until 20th April 2011. The rules and bindings for campaigning are mentioned below:
 

1. The voters should only be contact by Email.
2. Bulk emails to all members exposing the email addresses of individuals is not allowed. Only personalized emails or using BCC should be adopted
3. Negative propaganda against other contestants should not be adopted. Only personal attributes and future plans for the chapter should be highlighted
4. No negative tactics, influence, bribery in any form should be adopted to sway the voters opinion
5. The privacy of member’s information should be respected at all costs
6. The contestants who could not win the elections should graciously accept the results and fully support the winning candidates so the party can thrive and grow further.
7. The intra-party elections are a step to make PTI an institution and elections should not be a source for division or disharmony among the members. Furthermore, the election campaign should not affect the community relations in chapters. All contestants should be aware of the above considerations so that no negative impressions are not propagated among the community regarding the party and our leader Imran Khan.

Dr. Humayun Mohmand

Secretary International affairs 

 

Chapter Name	President	Vice President	General Secretary	Finance Secretary	Information Secretary
Arlington	Farooq Shaikh	Syed Salman Yousuf (Salman Abidi)	Mohammad Abbas Mirza		Hassan Siddique
New York	Mohammad Muzamil Anwar	Basit Irfan	Yasir Ali	Nauman Shah	Bilal A. Shah
New Jersey	Ahsan Farooqi	Nauman Chaudary	Mohammad Saeed Hasan		Mehreen Saeed
Virginia	Muhammad Aslam Khan	Muhammad Ishtiaq	Iftekhar Khan	Aftab Hussain	Arslan Mehmood Malik
Seattle	Asad Faizi	Salman Zafar	Ghazanfar Ahmed	Shaharyar Aarbi	Aisha Salman
	Arslan Ahmad	Abdul Rafay Abbasi	Omar Khalid	Maleeha Omar	Aamir Zia
Houston	Masood Hassan	Fayyaz Qureshi	Sohail Baig	Behzad Ali Khan	Sheikh Najam Ali
California	Usman Ali	M. Saeed Chaudhary	Sherry Khan	Safdar Khan
Pennsylvania	Shoaib Chaudhary	Harris Tahir	Anjum Zahid		Mohammad Imran
		Asim Saeed
Dallas	Nadeem Zaman	Fayyaz Shah	Shahid Khan
Atlanta	Dr. Rahim Gul	Amir Rashid Dar	Asad Bhatti	Hina Umar	Hamid Rehman

Chairmans Microfinance Plan for Flood Victims

NOWSHERA: A micro-finance project under self-employment scheme jointly sponsored by Mir Khalilur Rahman Foundation, Imran Khan Foundation and Akhuwat for over 1,200 flood victims of Nowshera Kalan has been inaugurated.

An amount of Rs11.7 million would be provided to the flood-hit people to enable over 1,200 families to stand on their own feet.

The scheme was launched at Jamia Masjid Sahibzadgan under the aegis of Pukar, Imran Khan and Akhuwat. Eminent analyst Haroonur Rashid was chief guest on the occasion. Anjum Saqib, Chief Executive Director of Akhuwat Foundation, Naseemur Rehman of Imran Khan Foundation, Chief Executive NRCP and former chief secretary Azam Khan and Malik Fateh Awan spoke on the occasion.

They said that the devastating flood of 29 July, 2010 not only caused havoc in Nowshera but also in the entire country. It was a big test of the nature and we have to take a lesson from the same.

They said a scheme for the affectees has been launched to enable them stand on their own feet. They said that Rs60 million have been earmarked for extending interest free loans to the victims under the micro-finance programme for the self-employment scheme. Over 3,000 families of Nowshera, Peshawar and Mansehra would benefit from the scheme.