Javed Hashmi all set to join PTI
402 viewsBy jazbablog - Wed Dec 21, 11:40 pm
ISLAMABAD: The PML-N leader, Makhdoom Javed Hashmi is all set to join Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
According to media reports all formalities have been duly fulfilled for a formal announcement within next few days. Makhdoom Javed Hashmi has been reported to be quite agitated over being constantly ignored/bypassed/sidetracked, and is known to have publicly criticided PML-N’s leadership in meetings.
Seeking no peace of mind, he has finally decided to resign from PML-N and join PTI. Sources have informed that he was constantly in touch with Imran Khan over the issue and Imran Khan eventually acquiesced to his (Makhdoom Javed) request.
Sixty-three years old leader of the PML-N Javed Hashmi is a key opposition leader in Pakistan, and one of the prominent leaders of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) which campaigned against the Musharraf regime.
He started his career in politics during his university days from the platform of Islami Jamaat Tulaba (IJT), the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In the capacity of his practical politics he has also served in Zia-ul-Haq‘s cabinet.
On April, 12 2004, he was sentenced to 23 years in prison for inciting mutiny in the army, forgery and defamation, by circulating a letter written by military officers calling for an investigation into alleged corruption in the armed forces and criticising President Pervez Musharraf and his relationship with US President George W. Bush.
All opposition parties in Pakistan, including former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s PPPP, MMA term his this anti-Army move to be politically motivated, as accused by the ruling junta, entitling him to be a political prisoner.
