Three women PTI leaders Andleeb Abbas, Sadia Sohail, and Sumaira Bokhari have decided to quit their party to join the Istehkam-i-Pakistan Party, which is led by former ruling party defector Jahangir Tareen.
They announced the decision on Tuesday in a press conference where they sat next to old faces of PTI who were now part of the IPP.
Andleeb, Sadia, and Sumari would be joining several of their former party mates in the new party.
“Basically we have to see the future. We have to see what the cause is. A person and a party are not bigger than the cause, so the cause should be the way forward,” Andleeb said.
According to her, the cause was related to the sufferings of the common people. “Our cause is common people,” she said and lamented that the country’s economic and social situations were not stable.
Sadia started speaking at the presser by saying that she has a non-political background and was aware of the common people’s issues. “The purpose was always to serve the people and still it was the same.
Sumaira also spoke in the same vein, saying: “Nothing is more important than your own country.” She added that despite joining the new party they were following the same agenda: to serve people.
