The party stalwart from Kasur, Chaudhry Manzoor Ahmed, was also present. The advocate is also a nephew of the sitting Punjab Assembly Speaker, Rana Muhammad Iqbal. But President Wattoo avoided commenting on a supplementary question whether the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf had snatched the ground from his party in the Punjab during the 2013 general elections. "We will regain the ground," he said.
The party president terming it "The beginning of a trail" of joining by others in the province ahead, said Advocate Riaz joined the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in 2009 and then contested the elections from NA-142 where he got 18,900 votes. "Today, he has decided to join the Pakistan Peoples' Party and we are welcoming him," he added. He said the party's lawyers' wing president had also won the Kasoor Bar Association's elections.
On Bilawal's political activities in the Punjab, he said, "Bilawal will be a regular visitor of the province from onwards. He attended Mass marriages under the Ameer Begum Welfare Trust where 50 weddings took place a day earlier. His presence for a noble cause has won the hearts of the newly-wed couples."