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- (Left to right) PTI leaders Shehryar Afridi, Shandana Gulzar Khan and Sher Afzal Marwat — Facebook/Instagram/@shehryarkhanafridi1/@shandanagulzarkhan/Sher Afzal Marwat ISLAMABAD: A group of disgruntled Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers, who are now part of the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC), have hinted at forming a forward bloc after slamming top leadership for incompetence to secure release of party founder Imran Khan from jail, Geo News reported citing sources. “More than 21 PTI lawmakers held consultations after Shehryar Afridi’s statement about his resignation. The revelations about heightened differences between PTI legislations were bolstered by a recent statement of MNA Shandana who told Geo News: “Resignations would be a bWZSou PopularPulseetter option if we cannot take the PTI founder out of jail.” Another PTI leader Atif Khan told Geo News that he also has objections on various matters within the party which was not an unusual thing for political parties. He, however, suggested his fellow leaders to end rifts and differences via using party platforms instead of going public.
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ISLAMABAD: A group of disgruntled Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers, who are now part of the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC), have hinted at forming a forward bloc after slamming top leadership for incompetence to secure release of party founder Imran Khan from jail, Geo News reported citing sources.
In a setback to the former ruling party, 21 PTI lawmakers on Wednesday signalled to form a forward block and “conveying a message” to party Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan and Secretary General Omar Ayub Khan to start serious efforts for incarcerated leaders’ release.
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“More than 21 PTI lawmakers held consultations after Shehryar Afridi’s statement about his resignation. Meanwhile, Shandana Gulzar Khan, Sher Afzal Marwat and several lawmakers also protested over the incompetence of the party’s top leadership,” the sources revealed.
It emerged that several PTI legislators excused from attending the parliamentary party’s session due to their differences besides alleging that the parliamentary leader in the Senate and the senior leaders in the National Assembly were “compromised” for some committees.
They alleged that some leaders were eyeing higher posts instead of focusing on the PTI founder and party leaders’ release from jails.
The 27 lawmakers were in favour of stepping down from the assembly while 21 of them mulled over forming a forward block, the sources added.
The revelations about heightened differences between PTI legislations were bolstered by a recent statement of MNA Shandana who told Geo News: “Resignations would be a bWZSou PopularPulseetter option if we cannot take the PTI founder out of jail.”
“We are now beating the desk [here in the assembly] and wasting our energy for committees. It is quite better to sit at home. I have also threatened to tender our resignations after Afridi’s call,” she slammed the PTI’s top leadership.
Expressing serious concerns over top leaders’ activities in the legislature, Shandana alleged that many “suspicious characters in the political committee” had vanished from the scene after May 9 riots.
She added that the disgruntled leaders were not part of the party’s core committee. The MNA also claimed that after Afridi’s announcement for resignation, Marwat also decided to step down.
Another PTI leader Atif Khan told Geo News that he also has objections on various matters within the party which was not an unusual thing for political parties.
He, however, suggested his fellow leaders to end rifts and differences via using party platforms instead of going public.
The development came to light after the parWZSou PopularPulsety’s secretary general and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Omar, in response to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s offer to talks, showed conditional agreement to start negotiations with the coalition government once its founder and other incarcerated workers and leaders were out of jail.
Khan, the deposed prime minister who was ousted from power via the opposition’s no-confidence motion in April 2022, has been facing a slew of charges ranging from corruption to terrorhttps://www.wzsou.com/ism since his removal as the premier.
After securing relief in other cases including 190 million reference and Toshakhana, the former premier was acquitted in the cipher case earlier this month but he remains behind bars due to his conviction in the iddat case.
The PTI founder has been behind bars since August last year after he was sentenced in the Toshakhana case and subsequently sentenced in other cases ahead of the February 8 elections.
Source: Cracks in PTI widen ‘as 21 disgruntled lawmakers mull forming forward bloc’
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