Ch Sarwar formally joins PML after meeting with Shujat.

LAHORE -- Former Punjab governor Ch Mohammad Sarwar Sunday announced joining the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) along with his companions during a meeting with the PML chief Chaudhry Shujat Hussain and other party leaders.

A special ceremony was held at Muslim League House Lahore to announce the formal joining of the PML by the former governor who has been in the political wilderness since April 2022 after his resignation. Sources in the PML disclosed that Ch Sarwar will be offered the office of chief organizer with the mandate to woo electables from other parties especially the PTI where he wielded considerable influence over a group of PTI leaders in different Punjab districts. Sources also confided that Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi who is closely related to Ch Shujat's family, was instrumental in the development. Previously, Ch Sarwar had plans to contest the coming elections in league with a group of disgruntled politicians from different parties.

Ch Sarwar started his political career from the platform of the PML-N even though he was equally close with the PPP leadership in the 1990s. He served as Punjab governor during the last tenure of Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif as the prime minister. He was offered the same slot in the tenure of Imran Khan after he left the PML-N and joined the PTI. He left the...