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