KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) Saturday held intra-party elections after a gap of five years to elect members of the coordination committee, and other organizational hierarchy, ARY NEWS reported.
According to sources privy to the development, the party held an intra-party election after an event to pay tribute to Pakistan’s first Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan over his martyrdom anniversary.
“The MQM-P had to submit results of the intra-party election ahead of the local bodies elections to the Election Commission of Pakistan as per the election rules,” they said.
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The sources said that the results have not been announced and the party would submit them to the ECP next week.
“The polling process included the election for the 30-member coordination committee, central organizing committee, central executive committee and zones,” they said.
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The incumbent convener Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Amir Khan, Kanwar Naveed Jamil, Waseem Akhter, Rauf Siddiqui, Aminul Haque and others have been elected to the coordination committee, they said.
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