MQM names newly-formed CEC

By: Nisar Mehdi | Published: November 21, 2011

KARACHI - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Sunday announced 42 members of its newly-formed Central Executive Committee drawn from Sindh, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu & Kashmir.

The announcement was made by Ribita Committee Deputy Convener Dr Farooq Sattar in a press conference held here at Lal-Qila Ground in Azizabad.
The members include Ajmal Dehlvi (Editor Daily Amn), Sarfaraz Nawaz, Pir Farzand Ali Shah, Pir Ghulam Majaddid Sarhindi, Hakim Khan Hathi Khel, Senator Babar Khan Ghouri, MNA Haider Abbas Rizvi, Raja Azam Khan (MLA Gilgit-Baltistan), Nighat Zehri, Barrister Habibur Rehman, Anwer Iqbal Baloch, MNA Khushbakht Shujaat, Muhammad Tahir Khokhar (MLA Kashmir), Dr Laila Perveen, Syed Shamshad Jafri, Senator Tahir Mashhadi, Senator Ahmed Ali, Senator Abdul Haseeb, MNA Khawaja Sohail, MNA Wasim Akhter, MPA Adil Siddiqui, MPA Rauf Siddiqui, MNA Dr Ayub Shaikh, Ghulam Haider Rahu, MPA Faisal Sabzwari, Shaheen Anwer Gillani, MNA Sardar Ahmed, Ghazi Salahuddin, Ahmed Salim Siddiqui, MPA Nisar Panhwar, Ponjomal Bheel Advocate, MPA Rasheed Maseeh, MPA Hir Ismael Soho, Dr Arshad Vohra, Capt Hadi, Zahid Awan Malik, Dr Shahzad Ali Shamshi, Bisma Asif Sukhaira, Long Khan Channa, Dr Noor Muhammad, Tahira Asif and Shahid Hassan Toori.
Describing the formation of the CEC, Sattar said that the council would assist the co-ordination committee in structuring of the party’s organisation, policy issues, propagation of party policies and in the preparation of the party manifesto and in holding of party programmes.
The council shall hold a meeting on quarterly under the Rabita Committee in order to exchange views on national issues, he added.