The differences cropped up in the same year when Wattoo was removed as the Punjab Chief Minister in the power struggle between the province (headed by PML-Junejo) and the center (headed by rival PPP), leading Arif Nakai another PML (Junejo) candidate to be the new Chief Minister.

It was later stated that Wattoo will bring back PML (Jinnah) and the reason he didn't run on PML (Jinnah) ticket was because he failed the deadline to register it with the Election Commission.

In May 2008, Manzoor Wattoo (along with his daughter Rubina Shaheen Wattoo) left Pakistan Muslim League (Jinnah) and joined Pakistan Peoples Party.

[2] Since their merger with PML-Q, this faction/break-away group is now defunct in the politics for the moment.

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