{"id":8265,"date":"2009-11-05T18:43:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T13:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=8265"},"modified":"2009-11-05T18:43:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T13:43:17","slug":"waheed-murad-joins-mqm-withdraws-in-favor-of-kamil-jan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/2009\/11\/05\/waheed-murad-joins-mqm-withdraws-in-favor-of-kamil-jan\/","title":{"rendered":"Waheed Murad joins MQM, withdraws in favor of Kamil Jan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8266\" href=\"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/05\/waheed-murad-joins-mqm-withdraws-in-favor-of-kamil-jan\/wmqm\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8266\" title=\"wmqm\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/wmqm.jpg?resize=455%2C341\" alt=\"wmqm\" width=\"455\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><strong>Press Release<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>Islamabad, November 05<\/strong>:\u00a0Waheed Murad,\u00a0a candidate for the Gilgit Baltistan Legislative Assembly from LA &#8211; 6,\u00a0Hunza, has withdrawn in favor of MQM\u00a0ticket holder, Kamil Jan. He has also obtained membership of MQM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">According to a press release\u00a0Waheed Murad made the decision after a meeting with MNA Abdul Qadir Khanzada and\u00a0MQM provincial secretary for Punjab, Zahid\u00a0Malik, here in Islamabad. MQM chief Altaf Hussain made announced this news in a press conference today, the release states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Major points discussed during the meeting included prospects of establishing polling stations in Islamabad and Karachi. This would facilitate the migrant students and professionals of Gilgit &#8211; Baltistan, highly concentrated in Karachi, Rawalpindi\/Islamabad, Lahore, Abbotabad and Haiderabad, Sindh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">According to the press release the above matter will be raised in a dinner meeting tonight with President Asif Ali Zaradar by an MQM delegation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Waheed Murad has said that his decisoin to join MQM is for better future of his region. He has also termed MQM as a democratic and liberal party that is worried about the future of Gilgit &#8211; Baltistan. Another major reason quoted by Waheed is the opportunities provided by MQM to youth for playing a role in the region&#8217;s development through participation in the political process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Waheed Murad had earlier tried to obtain PML (N) ticket but it was awarded to\u00a0Shehryar Khan.\u00a0The family of Waheed Murad had been long time supporters of Ghazanfar Ali Khan&#8217;s politics in the region. The decision to part ways with PML (N), observers believe, will create more hurldes for the party in Sost and some adjacent areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release Islamabad, November 05:\u00a0Waheed Murad,\u00a0a candidate for the Gilgit Baltistan Legislative Assembly from LA &#8211; 6,\u00a0Hunza, has withdrawn in favor of MQM\u00a0ticket holder, Kamil Jan. He has also obtained membership of MQM. According to a press release\u00a0Waheed Murad made the decision after a meeting with MNA Abdul Qadir Khanzada and\u00a0MQM provincial secretary for Punjab, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[358,4781,10,250,47],"class_list":["post-8265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-gbla-election-2009","tag-gilgit-baltistan","tag-gojal","tag-hunza-elections-2009","tag-hunza-nagar"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}