ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said that the decision of granting party ticket to anyone is made by the parliamentary board of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
Rejecting the claim made by former information minister Pervaiz Rashid that former interior minister Ch Nisar Ali Khan cannot contest elections on a PML-N ticket, the PM House in a statement said that no one person takes decision on issuing party tickets for elections. “Rather there is a board that makes this decision in consultation with the party leaders,” the statement said. “The decision will not be made by one person … it will be taken after discussions with a special board which is formed to determine the issue of party tickets,” it added.
“The future of Ch Nisar in the PML-N will be decided by Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and now Nisar has to choose whether he wants to stay in the party or go down a different path,” Pervaiz Rashid had claimed a day earlier. According to the former information minister, the PML-N was preparing to go into the general elections this year with the same strategy that it was currently pursuing and had no plans to change or abandon it.
Published in Daily Times, March 26th 2018.
