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President Zardari addressing the World Summit for Social Development in Doha on November 4, 2025 Photo: Radio Pakistan
LAHORE:
President Asif Zardari is expected to travel to Islamabad on Monday (today) after his flight scheduled for Sunday was canceled due to smog, according to party sources.
He had arrived in Lahore to congratulate a party leader on her son’s upcoming wedding later this month. While there, he met with party leaders, but none of the meetings concerned specific party matters.
Currently, considerable wrangling is going on within the central Punjab chapter, which is still awaiting the leadership’s approval of party organization.
Chairman Bilawal Bhutto, who stayed in Punjab for about five days, was also expected to approve this reorganization; however, there has been complete silence on the matter.
An important disagreement arose over the proposed office-bearer structure in Lahore, with the central Punjab leadership and the central information secretary wanting their own nominees to be given portfolios of their choice.
However, according to party sources, the proposed president of Lahore, Faisal Mir, has flatly refused to accept their recommendations. One particular post that has caused friction between Mir and the party’s information secretary is that of the information secretary in Lahore. Nadeem Afzal Chan wants Sania Kamran nominated while Mir insists on his own candidate.
