In a leaked audio, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Ali Muhammad Khan has advised that celebration founder Imran Khan’s directives to stage a “do-or-die” sit-in in Islamabad’s Sangjani space had been allegedly violated by the leaders, who led the supporters to D-Chowk as an alternative.
The audio was leaked days after PTI abruptly postponed its march following a authorities crackdown on protesters trying to achieve D-Chowk, sparking widespread condemnation throughout the former ruling celebration.
Questions are rising throughout the PTI parliamentary management about why supporters had been instructed to go to D-Chowk as an alternative of staging a sit-in in Sangjani, as the previous prime minister had ordered.
Within the audio, which Ali confirmed was his throughout a chat with Geo Information, the PTI chief claimed that celebration founder Imran Khan had ordered the leaders to arrange a protest camp in Islamabad’s Sangjani space, not at D-Chowk within the Purple Zone.
“The PTI founder had not requested to come back to D-Chowk, however to Islamabad. Khan Sahib had stated that the ultimate sit-in location can be confirmed after the celebration members reached Islamabad,” stated Ali within the audio leak.
The senior PTI chief, within the audio leak, questioned who ordered [the party workers] to go to D-Chowk when Khans’ directions had been clear. “The PTI founder had stated this within the presence of Barrister Gohar, Faisal Chaudhry, and others,” he added.
Elevating questions over the position of Khan’s sister, Aleema Khan, Ali requested: why the latter made the decision as an alternative of the celebration chairman Gohar.
“The PTI founder had stated that there was no place for hereditary politics in our celebration, so why did Aleema Khan name the protest herself?” he questioned, including that Khan had stated that the celebration management would give the decision.
Ali, within the audio, is also heard saying that the celebration’s purpose was to carry negotiations by means of the protests on the orders of the PTI founder.
He added that the PTI founder was unaware of Bushra Bibi’s presence within the protest and was knowledgeable of this by Barrister Gohar.
“The PTI chairman and secretary common ought to have introduced that the sit-in can be held in Sangjani,” stated Ali, including that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur had additionally agreed to it.
“We must always have adopted our chief’s orders and stopped in Sangjani. Nobody, together with Bushra Bibi, has the suitable to override the founder-chairman’s determination,” he added.
“When Barrister Saif had conveyed the message of the founding chairman, we must always have acted on it,” he stated.