Former Punjab governor and PTI leader Chaudhry Sarwar joined the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid on Saturday.
Chaudhry Sarwar met former Prime Minister and PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain at his residence and decided to join the party. He planned to reveal the future strategy tomorrow.
This comes just weeks after Chaudhry Parvez Elahi and his supporters defected from the PML-Q and joined the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Mr. Elahi has been named president of Imran Khan’s party.
In January, Chaudhry Sarwar dismissed claims of forming a new political party to oppose the PTI in Punjab.
Sarwar is a former British parliamentarian who left his political career in Glasgow in 2013 to serve in Pakistan. He joined the PML-N and was appointed Punjab governor after the party won both the national and provincial elections in 2013.
However, he resigned as governor of Punjab in January 2015 and joined the PTI. He was sworn in as governor for a second term in September 2018. He was fired by the then-PTI government in April 2022 due to disagreements.
Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar is a Pakistani and former British politician who served as the 31st and 33rd Governor of Punjab, from 2013 to 2015 and from 2018 to 2022. In his first term, he represented the Pakistan Muslim League (N). In his second term, he represented the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. He was a member of the Senate of Pakistan from March 2018 until September 2018. From 1997 to 2010 Sarwar was a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, representing a constituency in Glasgow, Scotland.
