The PML-N's students federation is deeply dissatisfied with
the party's senior leadership, including Nawaz Sharif, for not being
treated "respectfully" or given representation in the party's Central
Working Committee (CWC) and Central Executive Committee (CEC) — the
PML-N's main decision-making bodies.
The tensions
surfaced in an acrimonious meeting of Muslim Students Federation-N
(MSF-N) Chief Organiser Sardar Mohsin Abbasi and PML-N leader Raja
Zafarul Haq, a video recording of which has been acquired by DawnNews.
During
the meeting, Abbasi complained that members of the youth wing were not
given any respect or consideration within the PML-N.
"We
should be given what is rightfully ours, or we will take the MSF and
create another party with its members," Abbasi threatened at one point.
"We
do not have a single representative on the CWC or the CEC; you give us
some respect, and we will turn up with 50 thousand people for the
December 27 hearing," he said.
"You told us to speak the
truth, and when we are, you are telling us that we're acting
emotionally," he complained. "What standing does the MSF even have in
the party? You tell us," he asked the PML-N leader.
He also expressed the youth wing's reservations on other matters.
"Why
did you touch the Khatm-i-Nabuwwat [oath in the Elections Act 2017]?"
he asked. "Our people are asking us why they should ruin their faith for
the sake of Nawaz Sharif," he said.
"It doesn't matter
if what happened was right or wrong or just a mistake — it had a deeply
negative impact. The party's leadership has spent their entire lives as
part of different governments: what harm did it do to you?" he asked.
"But we have been left with nothing to offer our people as politics."
"We will start protesting if we are not given our rights," he warned.
