Former president Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Amir Muqam, on Wednesday said that he would formally join Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on April 06. Talking to Business Recorder Muqam said that PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif would visit his Peshawar residence on April 06 where he along with his entire group would formally join PML-N at a news conference.
Muqam, who held a meeting with PML-N chief at his Raiwind residence in Lahore and expressed willingness to join the party, was sacked by PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Tuesday night. "I had serious differences with PML-Q leadership from the day when they joined the ruling coalition and remained inactive," Muqam said. He vowed to restore the lost prestige of Muslim League in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif.
To a question he rejected the allegations that he was still enjoying the protocol of Federal Minister, which he was made after his party joined the ruling coalition. "Rather the security, which I was given before nomination as minister owing to security reasons has also been withdrawn. I had resigned as minister and presented resignation to Prime Minister and the President," he added. However, Sheikh Waqas Akram, PML-Q central vice president told this scribe that Muqam was still taking salary of Federal Minister for Production.
He said that the party action against Muqam was justified and accused him of holding secret negotiation with PML-N for the last eight months. "He went...from where he had come and the party will not suffer with his exit," he added. He said that the party leadership has taken right decision to dissolve the KP chapter of the party and removing Amir Muqam as its provincial president. Muqam has been rejected by Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf central executive committee to join the party but later he told media that he had never desired to join PTI.