Barrister Ali Zafar will be Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s next chairman nominee, PTI leader Barrister Gohar Ali Khan announced Thursday, as the former ruling party’s top post remains vacant for more than a month.
“This time, our candidate for party chairman will be Barrister Ali Zafar and Omar Ayub secretary general,” Gohar told journalists outside Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail after meeting party founder Imran Khan.
The fresh intra-party elections will take place on March 3, announced Gohar, and said that everyone would do everything in their power to ensure that Zafar is elected as the party’s next chairman.
Earlier this month, PTI spokesperson Rauf Hasan had announced holding intra-party polls to elect the chairman, central and provincial organising bodies on February 5 but the party, however, postponed the elections.
As per the PTI’s election schedule, candidates intending to contest the intra-party polls can submit their nomination papers on February 23 and 24, with the scrutiny being carried out on February 25.
Meanwhile, the final decisions on nomination papers will be announced on February 27 and the polling will be held on March 3 at the party’s central office as well as provincial secretariats.
