Lahore: Two more Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders left PTI. Singer-turned-politician Abrar Ul Haq and Senator Saifullah Nyazee, said they leaving the party because of the chaos on May 9.
After attacks on civil and military institutions the security forces started to crack down on the PTI. Attack happened at different places including the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi and the Lahore Corps Commander’s House (Jinnah House), . This caused a large number of PTI leaders to leave the country.
The protests started when PTI Chairman Imran Khan arrested in the Al-Qadir Trust graft case at the Islamabad High Court on May 9, a day the army called “Black Day.”
Haq told a group of reporters in Lahore, “I regret standing with Imran Khan.”
Haq said that he grew up in a political and military family. He also said that when hes “blessed by Allah” with fame, he wanted to do something for his country.
The singer-turned-politician said that whenever he sees a picture of a martyr, he salutes it out of love for them.
“In our medical college, education is free for the children of martyrs,” he said. Haq said that he doesn’t want fame or power.
Senator Nyazee told a separate press conference in Islamabad that he was leaving the PTI.
“I was very upset for the past year. He said, “I wanted to pay attention to my family.” The senator was very sad about what happened on May 9.
Firdous and Raas
Murad Raas, a leader of the PTI and the former education minister of Punjab, anounced exit from party earlier today.
At a news conference in Lahore, Raas said that the events of May 9 could not criticised enough. “We never thought we would leave the party,” he said with other leaders like Pir Ahmad Khagga, Raja Yawar Kamal, and Chaudhry Adnan.
He said that Khan’s advisers in Lahore were to blame for the present situation of the party, which is getting a lot of bad press and has had a lot of leaders and workers arrested all over the country because of the riots.
The former province minister said, “We don’t believe in the PTI’s violent politics.”
Raas said that he and the other politicians at the press conference had chosen to get together to keep working on Pakistan’s progress.
Another PTI leader, Firdous Ashiq Awan, who used to work as an assistant to the chief minister of Punjab, also said she leaving the party.
She was against the violence on May 9 and said that its planned at Khan’s Zaman Park home.
