ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president Nawaz Sharif appointed on Saturday two retired generals as his party`s assistant secretaries general.
Lt-Gen (retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch and Lt-Gen (retd) Salahuddin Tirmizi were picked as office-bearers at the party`s central management committee meeting held here at the central secretariat.
Gen Baloch served as governor of Balochistan from Feb 1 to Aug 11, 2003, in the regime of former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf. He is currently a member of the National Assembly from Balochistan.
Earlier, he retired prematurely as corps commander of Quetta so that he could be appointed a governor. Gen Tirmizi, a former corps commander, has been given the responsibility of strengthening the party.
Political analysts are of the view that appointment of the two former generals as central office-bearers by Mr Sharif is aimed at projecting the soft image of the PML-N within the military but its arch rivals are terming the move a bid to improve the party`s working relations with the military establishment.
Besides the two newly inducted office-bearers the meeting was also attended by senior vice-president Sartaj Aziz, deputy secretary-general Ahsan Iqbal, information secretary Senator Mushahidullah Khan and former secretary-general Iqbal Zafar Jhagra.
The meeting decided to celebrate the Independence Day on August 14 in a befitting way and instructions were issued to the district office-bearers across the country in this regard.
The meeting formed a media coordination committee in order to effectively communicate the party`s activities to the masses.
