PPP expels Chitral leader for 'planning' to join PTI-P.

CHITRAL -- Pakistan Peoples Party, Lower Chitral president Sharif Hussain has terminated the party's basic membership of Drosh tehsil council chairman Shahzada Khalid Pervaiz for his 'intensions' to join Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-Parliamentarian led by Pervez Khattak.

In a statement issued here on Tuesday, he regretted that Mr Pervaiz had been elected as the tehsil council chairman on the PPP ticket, and had also been nominated for the provincial assembly seat of PK-2, Lower Chitral, for the forthcoming general elections. However, he said Mr Pervaiz had betrayed the PPP by joining the splinter group of PTI, where he had reportedly been promised party ticket in the general elections for the provincial assembly.

Mr Sharif said the...