PTI-backed lawmakers receive first salary

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-backed lawmakers received their first salary on Sunday.

PTI-backed lawmakers receive first salary. According to details, Rs193,000 was transferred to the accounts of each member of the PTI in the form of salary.

Each member will get around nearly Rs300,000 monthly, which includes salary and other benefits.

– PTI founder faces political vendetta, avers Barrister Gohar Ali Khan –

Few days back, PTI leader Barrister Gohar Ali Khan asserted that the party founder was facing political vendetta.

Speaking to the media outside Adiala jail in Islamabad, Khan said: “The efforts are underway to compel the PTI founder to compromise. The PTI founder has made it clear that everything belongs to the country.”

Khan assailed Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Rana Sanaullah over his statement against the PTI founder. “Those who are giving irresponsible statements should be stopped.”

PTI-backed lawmakers receive first salary

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf  is a political party in Pakistan established in 1996 by Pakistani cricketer and politician Imran Khan, who served as the country’s prime minister from 2018 to 2022. The PTI ranks among the three major Pakistani political parties alongside the Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz (PML–N) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), and it is the largest party in terms of representation in the National Assembly of Pakistan since the 2018 general election. With over 10 million members in Pakistan and abroad, it claims to be the country’s largest political party by primary membership, as well as one of the largest political parties in the world.

Despite Khan’s popular persona in Pakistan, the PTI had limited initial success: it failed to win, as a collective, a single seat in the 1997 general election and the 2002 general election; only Khan himself was able to win a seat. From 1999 to 2007, the PTI supported the military presidency of Pervez Musharraf. It rose in opposition to Musharraf in 2007 and also boycotted the 2008 general election, accusing it of having been conducted with fraudulent procedures under Musharraf’s rule. The global popularity of the “Third Way” during the Musharraf era led to the rise of a new Pakistani political bloc focused on centrism, deviating from the traditional dominance of the centre-left PPP and the centre-right PML–N. When the PML–Q began to decline in the aftermath of Musharraf’s presidency, much of its centrist voter bank was lost to the PTI. Around the same time, the PPP’s popularity began to decrease after the disqualification of Yousaf Raza Gillani in 2012. Similarly, the PTI appealed to many former PPP voters, particularly in the provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, due to its outlook on populism.