QUETTA: Pakistan Muslim league (PML-N) Balochistan leader and ex-Nazim Quetta Metropolitan Corporation, Mir Aslam Rind on Sunday announced to part ways with PML as a protest and said that he was going to contest election from PB-42-Quetta as an independent candidate.
Addressing a press conference at Quetta Press Club, he said PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif conducted interviews of all candidates of the party on December 06, adding that all companions knew “my interview was the best”.
He said that PML-N’s provincial president had awarded the party ticket of PB-42 to his son in law. He said that the son-in-law of PML-N Balochistan president, who was contesting election from PB-42, remained government employee till October 2023.
He said he was parting ways with PML-N as protest, adding, “Now I am contesting election as independent candidate from PB-42”. Quetta city was deprived of all basic facilities, he said adding that medical and engineering seats of Quetta city were being given to the candidates of other districts of the province.
Rind said, “Whenever a government employee of Quetta city proceeds on retirement, candidate of other district is appointed against the vacant position of Quetta city”, adding that example of Balochistan WASA, Quetta Development Authority, Quetta Metropolitan Corporation, Agriculture and Cooperative Department, Livestock and Dairy Development Department and Forest and Wildlife Department was in front of all. He said that no compromise would be made on the rights of the citizens of Quetta city.
