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Quetta: National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri, who was recently appointed as the president of the Balochistan chapter of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has said that he will be the voice of Balochistan at the federal level.
Talking to the media in Quetta, Suri said he will take along the people of the province with him as he termed the PTI Balochistan presidentship an important responsibility. The PTI leader added that the party was being reorganised at a grassroots level.
Suri said that the PTI was united under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan as he denied rifts within the party. He said he had high expectations from the youth of Balochistan, adding that the ethnic differences needed to be eradicated.
In a comment on former PM Nawaz Sharif, the NA deputy speaker said the former premier was convicted on graft charges and he will be imprisoned once he comes back to Pakistan.
On Saturday, Imran announced the new organisational structure of his party a day after dissolving all previous bodies over dismal performance in the local government (LG) elections in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).
He had appointed Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar as the new PTI secretary-general, Federal Minister for Education Shafqat Mahmood as Punjab president, Defence Minister Pervez Khattak as K-P president, Federal Minister for Industries Khusro Bakhtiar as South Punjab president, Maritime Minister Ali Haider Zaidi as Sindh president and National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri as Balochistan president.
Agencies add: New President of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Balochistan Qasim Suri on Sunday said that they want Nawaz Sharif to return to country and spend rest of his life in jail.
Talking to media persons, NA Deputy Speaker said that Nawaz Sharif has been disqualified from the court so he will be sent to jail.
Talking about his new position as provincial head of PTI, he said that the party will be reorganized at the grass root level and will try to work together will all workers and leaders of the party. He announced that for this purpose he will visit every district of the province. The Deputy Speaker said federal government has started mega development projects in neglected districts of Balochistan to improve living standard of people.
