Mehtab Abbasi expelled from PML-N for flouting party discipline
Pakistan
Mehtab Abbasi expelled from PML-N for flouting party discipline
LAHORE (Dunya News)/ Web Desk - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has on Saturday expelled senior leader Sardar Mehtab Abbasi for continuously violating party discipline.
The PML-N also terminated his basic membership. It is to be recalled that Abbasi served as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) governor.
PML-N Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal cited continuous “violation of party discipline” as the reason for his expulsion.
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The development came a day after Sardar Mehtab Abbasi announced his support for a PTI member, who is contesting as an ‘independent candidate’ from Abbottabad’s NA-17 constituency.
Abbasi declared his support to PTI-backed ‘independent candidate’ Ali Khan Jadoon. Jadoon is contesting in the NA-17 constituency in Abbottabad.
Abbasi would also contest the election as an independent candidate in the NA-16.