Peshwar: PPP leader and former Intelligence Bureau chief Masood Sharif Khan Khattak quit the party yesterday after being associated with it for 20 years.
He wrote an email to the party leader Benazir Bhutto to announce his resignation from the basis membership of the PPP and sent its copies to several newspapers and television channels.
Though Masood Sharif in his email told Benazir Bhutto that he didn't want to elaborate the reasons for his resignation, he later told Gulf News that he felt uncomfortable in the PPP on account of certain party policies. "I increasingly found my views at variance with the party leadership. I am known as someone who follows his mind. It was the call of my conscience to part ways with the PPP," he said.
Careful not to offend anyone, Masood Sharif pointed out that the so-called "war on terror" was mostly being fought in the NWFP. He said one cannot be oblivious to the suffering of the Pashtuns as a result of the current government policy. "Why everything has to happen in the Frontier? Why our people here have to suffer. Look at what is happening in Swat. Surely, there are better ways to do this job," he argued.
