PTI founding chief Imran Khan reportedly on Wednesday directed party’s senior vice chairman Sher Afzal Marwat to suspend all political activities as disagreements between the latter and party leaders continued.
Imran has asked Marwat to return to Islamabad, explicitly directing him to suspend any ongoing political engagements until further notice. The instructions come a day after the PTI leader, in a major twist, first announced suspending polls campaign in Sindh for claiming to have been “attacked” by party leaders Raoof Hasan and Hamid Khan, and later saying that he would continue the polls campaign.
In a post on social media platform X, Marwat wrote that he would not be distracted and urged the PTI activists to “deal [with] all the satanic forces” on their own. On Sunday, Marwat launched the PTI’s election drive in Sindh but later announced calling it off because of the statements against him by “sick-minded people” like Hamid and Hasan.
“Why these people are targeting me? Did I ever talk against them? I am so disheartened and feel so dejected. We were [supposed] to hold conventions in Sanghar and Nawabshah today but after being attacked by my own party senior lot, I am cancelling all my programmes and events,” he wrote on X.
However, earlier he had described President Arif Alvi of the PTI as a “wrong number”. In videos on social media, he had claimed that Alvi’s son had applied for a PTI ticket but he had opposed the move. Marwat maintained that Alvi had “conspired” against the party.
In response to this statement, PTI’s Raoof Hasan, while speaking to a private TV news channel a day earlier, claimed that Marwat did not reflect the party’s position and had no post within it. He added that the PTI “did not own” Marwat’s statements.
