ISLAMABAD - Ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz on Saturday announced Punjab-dominated Central Working and Central Executive committee members with both Hamza Shehbaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz Sharif stepping in the apex bodies of the party.
According to the party spokesman, Senator Asif Kirmani, who would also seize to hold the office of the party spokesman after this notification as the office will go to the central information secretary, the Central Working Committee of the party comprises 109 members from all the four provinces, Gilgit-Baltistan, Kashmir and the Fata, while the Central Executive Committee comprises 27 members.
In both the committees, the members from Punjab dominated as out of 27 CEC members 21 belonged to the Punjab province, while one member each from other provinces, the AJK and the Gilgit-Baltistan were taken.
Both Hamza Shehbaz and Maryam Nawaz Sharif were inducted in the CEC for the first time.
It was noted, while some heavyweights in the party were not considered to be part of the coveted CEC, the apex decision making body of the party.
Similarly, the same dominance of the Punjab was also noted as out of a total of 109 members of the CWC of the party some 42 belonged to the Punjab, while due representation was also given to rest of the provinces, the AJK and the Gilgit-Baltistan.
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, being the party head would be the president of both the CWC and CEC, while the slot of chairman CWC was given to Raja Zafarul Haq.
The list of CEC members include Raja Zafarul Haq, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan, Ishaq Dar, Khawaja Asif, Ayaz Sadiq, Hamza Shebaz, Maryam Nawaz Sharif, Ch Sher Ali, Marriyum Aurangzeb, Irfan Siddiqui, Ameer Maqam, Mushahidullah Khan, Sardar Sanaullah Zehri, Asif Kirmani, Rana Sanaullah Khan, Farooq Haider, Hafiz Hafeezur Rehman, Pervez Rashid, Barjees Tahir, Mehtab Ahmed, Begum Ishrat Ashraf, Babu Sarfraz and Asad Khan Junejo.
Meanwhile, the 109 CWC members include Chairman Muhammad Zafarul Haq, Senior Vice President Sardar Yaqoob Khan Nasar, Senior Vice President Nawabzada Changaiz Mari, Senior Vice President Saranjam Zamindar, Senior Vice President Pir Sabir Shah, Vice President Saleem Zia, Secretary General Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, Deputy Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal, Assistant Secretary General Salahuddin Tirmizi, Assistant Secretary General Abdul Qadir Baloch, Secretary Finance Pervaiz Rashid, Information Secretary Mushahidullah Khan, President PML-N Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Engr Ameer Muqam and General Secretary Murtaza Javed Abbasi, President PML-N Punjab Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif and General Secretary Raja Ashfaq Sarwar, President PML-N Balochistan Sardar Sanaullah Zehri and General Secretary Naseeb Ullah Bazai, President PML-N Sindh Babu Sarfraz Jatoi and General Secretary Shah Muhammad Shah, President PML-N Islamabad Dr Tariq Fazl Chaudhary, President PML-N AJK Raja Farooq Haider and General Secretary Shah Ghulam Qadir, President PML-N Gilgit-Baltistan Hafiz Hafeezur Rehman, President Women Wing Begum Nuzhat Aamir, President Youth Wing Capt Muhammad Safdar, President Lawyers Wing Ch Naseer Ahmed Bhutta, President Minority Wing Dr Darshan Lal and General Secretary Minority Wing Kamran Michael.
The rest of the members of Central Working Committee members including the CEC members are Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Ch Nisar Ali Khan, Ghulam Dastgir Khan, Muhammad Ishaq Dar, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Ch. Muhammad Jafer Iqbal, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Rana Sanaullah, Ch Sher Ali, Sheikh Aftab Ahmed, Rana Tanveer Hussain, Khawaja Saad Rafique, Begum Ishrat Ashraf, Begum Najma Hameed, Begum Zaki Shahnawaz, Haneef Abbasi, Siddiq ul Farooq, Muhammad Pervez Malik, Tariq Fatemi, Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan, Ayaz Khan Sawati, Saidal Khan Nasar, Ch Tanvir, Zohra Wadood Fatmi, Mian Muhammad Afzal Tarar, Zafarullah Dhandla, Mian Javed Latif, Mian Abdul Mannan, Baleeghur Rehman, Pir Imran Shah, Irfan Daha, Malik Rafiq Rajwana, Dr Asif Kirmani, Mariam Nawaz Sharif, Hamza Shehbaz Sharif, Farooq Khan, Junaid Anwaar, Ch Tariq Farooq, Ch Shahnawaz Ranjha, Malik Nadeem Kamran, Mehmood Bashir Virk, Usman Ibrahim, Ch Barjees Tahir Rana Hayat, Arshad Leghari, Tahira Aurangzeb, Marriyum Aurangzeb, Talal Ch, Daniyal Aziz, Col (retired) Mubashir Javed, Mian Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman, Mir Ghazanfar Ali, Sardar Abdul Khaliq Wasi, Abbas Khan Afridi, Dr Raheela Magsi, Muhammad Zubair, Sham Sunder Advani, Khel Das Kohistani, Raheela Durrani, Dur Muhammad Nasir, Younas Baloch, Kiran Haider, Ameer Afzal Khan Mandokhel, Rana Mahmoodul Hassan, Shaikh Ansar Aziz, Sahibzada Shabbir Hassan Ansari, Jamal Shah Kakar, Zahid Hamid, Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan, Mian Farooq, Iftikharul Hassan Shah, Asad Junejo, Nelson Azim, Khawaja Qutabud Din, Syed Zafar Ali Shah, Sorath Thebo, Hamayun Khan, Shafi Jamot and Aslam Abro.