{"id":97790,"date":"2026-01-19T16:36:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=97790"},"modified":"2026-01-19T16:36:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:36:02","slug":"ex-pti-mpa-waseem-afzal-brother-gulrez-afzal-to-join-ppp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ex-pti-mpa-waseem-afzal-brother-gulrez-afzal-to-join-ppp\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-PTI MPA Waseem Afzal, Brother Gulrez Afzal to Join PPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANDI BAHAUDDIN: Former member of the Punjab Assembly and former leader of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-announces-official-optional-holidays-for-2026\/\">PTI<\/a>, Waseem Afzal, has decided to join the People\u2019s Party along with his brother, Gulrez Afzal Chan, a former MPA.<\/p>\n<p>Waseem Afzal Chan was elected as a member of the Punjab Assembly in 2008, while Gulrez Afzal Chan was elected as a member of the Punjab Assembly in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Both brothers are sons of former provincial minister Haji Afzal Chan and brothers of PPP\u2019s Central Secretary Information and Broadcasting Nadeem Afzal Chan.<\/p>\n<p>The negotiations between the two former members of the Punjab Assembly and the PPP leadership have entered the final stages.<\/p>\n<p>Gulrez Afzal Chan was elected as a member of the Punjab Assembly on a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ticket from PP-43 constituency of Mandi Bahauddin in the 2013 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Waseem Afzal Chan contested the 2023 elections as an independent after not getting a PTI ticket, which he lost.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, Waseem Afzal Chan said that both brothers will now do their politics with Nadeem Afzal Chan. According to sources, the party leadership has given positive indications regarding their joining.<\/p>\n<p>The possible return of Wasim Afzal Chan and Gulrez Afzal Chan to the PPP is being hailed as a major development in regional politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANDI BAHAUDDIN: Former member of the Punjab Assembly and former leader of the PTI, Waseem Afzal, has decided to join the People\u2019s Party along with his brother, Gulrez Afzal Chan, a former MPA. Waseem Afzal Chan was elected as a member of the Punjab Assembly in 2008, while Gulrez Afzal Chan was elected as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":93520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33759],"class_list":["post-97790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-ex-pti-mpa-waseem-afzal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97791,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97790\/revisions\/97791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}