ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leader Asad Qaiser on Monday said that he is in touch with party chairman Imran Khan and has no intention of leaving PTI.
The former speaker of the National Assembly made these remarks after reaching the Islamabad court to attend the hearing of the case related to vandalism outside the judicial complex in the federal capital.
After PTI Khyber Pakhtunkhwa former president Pervaiz Khattak announced his resignation from the party post in a joint press conference, Qaiser’s status was unclear whether he had left the party or not, during which the former speaker was also sitting but remained silent. Khattak cited the May 9 disaster as the reason for his decision.
Several PTI leaders have quit the party condemning the violence that took place on the day, during which angry supporters attacked government and military installations.
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, the former defense minister said it was difficult for him to continue serving as president of the party’s KKP chapter during the current political crisis.
Pervaiz Khattak had said that he would announce the future course of action after consulting his friends and party colleagues.
When Asad Qaiser was asked about his current status, he said, “I am with Tehreek-e-Insaaf and in touch with Chairman PTI.”
Another journalist asked him whether Jahangir Tareen – who is currently forming a new political party of PTI defectors – had contacted him or not, the PTI leader replied. , “No contact with Jahangir Tareen”.
When pressed about Fawad Chaudhry’s claim, Qaiser insisted that he was with the PTI. The former information minister and party spokesperson claimed to have contacted Qaiser and other party leaders.
Asad Umar is in touch with Fawad Chaudhry
Meanwhile, PTI’s former Secretary General Asad Umar told the media that Tareen did not contact him. However, Fawad maintains regular contact.
Omar’s statement came during an informal exchange with reporters as he was leaving an Islamabad court to seek interim bail in a case related to the March riots at the federal capital’s judicial complex. had arrived for
Several months after the case was registered in the federal capital’s Tarnool police station, the politician has been granted bail in the relevant case.
When he was asked whether he would join Tareen’s party, he said, “What is my affiliation with Jahangir Tareen?”
He was then asked whether the senior politician had approached him, to which he replied in the negative. Jahangir Tareen has not contacted yet.
The PTI leader said that while he has been out of jail for the past seven to eight days, he has been making the rounds of the courts. He told reporters that only the former senior vice-president of the party had contacted him.
He said that Fawad Chaudhry is in touch with me from time to time. Meanwhile, on Friday, he denied being part of Fawad’s plan.
A journalist then asked Umar about the agenda of former party member Faisal Vawda. “Ask that question to Faisal Vawda,” he replied.
