Baryar, Bilal, Omari, Sharaqpuri also quit

Chohan blames PTI leadership for not stopping workers from violence

Senior PTI leader Dr Shireen Mazari has announced to quit ‘active politics’ citing her family, mother and her own health as reasons.

Islamabad,(Mudasser Chuhdary)_ Dr Mazari said she condemned the violence perpetrated on May 9, adding she has always condemned all kinds of violence.

She maintained that state institutions were supreme. Dr Mazari said she will not remain part of the PTI or any party. She added that her daughter, lawyer and activist Imaan Mazari, was put through a trial. She said she was quitting politics due to her children, her mother and her own health.

’My children and my mother are my priority,“ the former minister claimed.

She further said attacking state property was highly condemnable, adding her health deteriorated after staying in jail and her release for 12 days.Dr Mazari further said she has submitted an undertaking with the high court condemning the violence and mayhem of May 9 and 10. She added that while in jail, she saw videos of her daughter crying.

Meanwhile,

Former Punjab minister Fayyazul Hassan Chohan has announced that he will be parting ways with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI),

Addressing a press conference in Islamabad on Tuesday, he expressed grief over the May 9 riots, saying that they should not confront with state and its institutions.

He said the entire nation is saddened over the ransacking of military installations and other state institutions.

The former provincial minister said that decision to leave PTI was taken after incidents following his arrest.

Chohan lamented that the PTI chief Imran Khan did not utter a single word of sympathy for him, despite the number of sacrifices he had given for the party. He added that his family members were arrested and his house was ransacked at the behest of Maryam Nawaz Sharif.

He stated that Imran Khan’s silence over my arrest also forced me to review my political struggle.

Fayyaz Ul Hassan said that all the leaders will testify that he had asked PTI Chairman Imran Khan numerous times to discard the “policy of violence”

However, he expressed his desire to see Imran Khan as the Prime Minister once again.

He said that the PML-N members knew very well that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) was connected with Imran Khan or with someone else.

He lashed out at a number of PTI leaders and the party chief for following anti-army policies.

Chohan has claimed that PTI chairman Imran Khan “trained” party supporters to “move towards” military installations during a rally on May 1.

Fayyaz ul Chohan said that except for him, no one else in the party opposed the ‘policy of violence’. “There was no one who could make Imran Khan understand that politics should be done with patience and tolerance,” he added.

“From the entire leadership, if anyone tried to stop this, it was Fayyaz Chohan. And this is why I was sidelined in the party for the last year.

“Someone had told Imran that I support the army a lot,” he alleged.

Fayyaz-ul-Hassan Chohan made it clear that he is leaving PTI and not the politics and will continue to serve the people of Rawalpindi in a different way.

Earlier,

Jumping from Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ship took momentum on Tuesday as more than half a dozen leaders announced quitting the party over the May 9 incidents.

Karachi Eat Festival organizer Omar Omari MPA, Sialkot’s Chaudhry Saleem Baryar and former MPA Ahsan Saleem Baryar, former Karachi president of PTI Bilal Ghaffar MPA, and MPA from Sharaqpur Sharif, Jaleel Sharaqpuri also announced separating their ways to Imran Khan.

Early today, PTI’s core team member and former human rights minister Shireen Mazari, former MPA Fayyaz ul Hassan Chohan, former MPA Abdul Razzaq Khan Niazi and MPA from Uch Sharif, Makhdoom Hassan Gilani jumped the PTI ship.

Baryar family of Sialkot quits PTI to join PML-Q

Ch Saleem Baryar condemned the vandalism on May 9 and urged to punish the responsible persons for attacks on the military installations and other places.

According to the 24News HD TV channel, Saleem Baryar will join the ruling Pakistan Muslim League Quaid (PML-Q) for his future politics.

Jaleel Sharaqpuri, Bilal Ghaffar withdraw affiliation with PTI

Punjab legislator Main Jaleel Ahmed Sharaqpuri and Sindh legislator Bilal Ghaffar also withdrew their affiliation with Imran Khan and his party the PTI over the issue of vandalism on May 9.

Sharaqpuri condemned the violence on May 9 and said the responsible for such vandalism should be punished.

Bilal Ghaffar is PTI’s former president of Karachi and he was considered one of the close people and core team members of Ali Zaidi who is detained in prison.

Karachi Eat Festival organizer Omar Omari MPA quits PTI

Karachi Eat Festival organizer and Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) Omar Omari bade farewell to the party.

He made this announcement on his official Twitter account and condemned the May 9 incident. He is abroad nowadays and did not attend the assembly session since last year.

He is the organizer of the popular Karachi Eat Festival and comes to Pakistan every year on the occasion of the festival only.

He said in his tweets that he cannot compromise on his beliefs and country. he said he considers himself a patriot.