ISLAMABAD – On the directives of All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) chief Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf, the local leadership has intensified a country-wide membership drive to restructure the party with a focus on areas with a strong following.
Sources in the party said that party Gen (retd) Musharraf will return ahead of the next general elections to lead the party. Till that time, APML Secretary General Dr Amjad would supervise the membership drive and party’s organisation matters at district and tehsil levels.
Some party insiders said that efforts to forge an alliance with smaller parties, as well as party’s reorganisation drive, would go side by side, as the party chief believed that without bringing like-minded political forces on one platform “the dream of bringing real change on the political horizon would remain a dream”.
In the recent past, the APML secretary general revamped the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa chapter of the party. According to a senior party official, more changes in the party’s provincial hierarchy in the other three provinces was also on the cards.
Musharraf and his close aides and emissaries have recently met with key political figures from Karachi and rural Sindh with a proposal to forge alliances to turn the tables against the parties of status quo.
Musharraf has been working to bring the splinter groups of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement under his wings, while he was also trying to win the support of nationalist and other Sindh-centric parties to grab seats in the next general elections.