Fault lines within the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leadership have seemingly worsened as its senior leader Sher Afzal Marwat Wednesday announced his decision against working with senior party leaders.
“I refuse to work with Shibli Faraz and Omar Ayub […] they didn’t allow me to meet PTI founder Imran Khan [in prison],” Marwat said while speaking to the media outside Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
“I was denied meeting the party founder yesterday as well as today,” he added. Marwat’s remarks come days after the party revoked his nomination for the post of National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee chairman and named Sheikh Waqas Akram for the said office.
Lamenting that the PTI founder was misguided on every issue, Marwat, quoting Faraz, said that the party backtracked over his name for the PAC chairman post after Pakistan Muslim League-N’s raised objections to his nomination. “I have been targeted since February 8 [elections] and I have apprised the party founder about it”, Marwat said while stressing that he has no interest in holding offices.
