A senior party leader said that Khan is confident of doing very well in upcoming elections, even in Punjab, keeping in mind the new political alignments in recent weeks and months, and that the idea of spelling out the proposed 100-day plan is aimed at attracting more people.
“Primarily, the PTI chairman will focus on the 11 points he announced during the party’s Minar-e-Pakistan public meeting recently, and how his possible government will go about implement them,” he explained.
The PTI chief, he noted, had directed party experts to prepare plans with timelines to deal with the challenges faced by the country.
Along with the party committee reviewing the PTI manifesto, a new six-member committee has been notified to thrash out recommendations for creation of South Punjab province.
According to a PTI notification this week, veteran politician Mir Balakh Sher Mazari, who recently joined the PTI along with several other politicians, has been made convenor of the committee.
The other members of the committee are PTI vice-chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Jahangir Khan Tareen, Ishaq Khan Khaqwani, Khusro Bakhtiar, and Tahir Bashir Cheema.
“The committee will formulate a way forward for the creation of South Punjab province in the federation of Pakistan. The committee will look into all necessary aspects and steps required in creation of a new province and submit an implementation plan to the party within a period of 100 days,” says the notification.
The committee may call subject matter experts as per their need to help in formulating the strategy.
Meanwhile, talking to media persons here, Shah Mehmood Qureshi charged that the narrative being projected by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is more dangerous than his recent statement.
Qureshi expressed fears that Pakistan could face sanctions from the US because of Sharif’s controversial remarks on the Mumbai attacks.
However, he made it clear that Sharif’s political narrative is unpopular within and without the party.
About the caretaker premier, the PTI leader said that there is no consensus over the matter.
“We have not been consulted over the issue of caretaker set up,” Qureshi complained.
He said that the PTI had forwarded some names to Leader of Opposition Khursheed Shah.
However, these were leaked to the media, leading to a war of words between the PTI and Shah.
About the widely-debated issue of proposed merger of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Qureshi said that if the government had a fair intention, then it should have worked on the early passage of the constitutional amendment.
He added that the PTI wanted not only the merger but local government polls in the region.
The PTI leader said his party had always raised its voice in support of the merger of Fata with KP.