PTI exodus gains pace; Baryar, Bilal, Omari, Sharaqpuri also quit
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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.
According to the 24News HD TV channel, 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.
I cannot compromise on my beliefs or my ideals and my country. Therefore for now I bid farewell to this kind of politics and resign from PTI with a promise to return if and when my country needs me.
— - O M A R . O M A R I - (@omaromari_PTI) May 23, 2023
Pakistan Zindabad
It was wrong and must be called out as such. Unfortunately I never learnt the art of diplomacy and perhaps that is why I did not climb the steps of the slippery political ladder to get to the top which so many fight to achieve. Selling mind, body and soul in the process.
— - O M A R . O M A R I - (@omaromari_PTI) May 23, 2023
The incidents of 9th May and the desecration of monuments and bldngs that stnd as a testament to the vry institution that has suffered the greatest losses and sacrificed countless lives in the struggle to build Pakistwn, cannot b right. In principle and in spirit.
— - O M A R . O M A R I - (@omaromari_PTI) May 23, 2023
Creating a divide between the Pakistani people and the army serves no purpose to the nation. It only damages it further!
— - O M A R . O M A R I - (@omaromari_PTI) May 23, 2023
I consider myself a PATRIOT. I came into politics to build a better Pakistan with vision to bring change.
— - O M A R . O M A R I - (@omaromari_PTI) May 23, 2023
Today as I look back on my tenure as an MPA, I fail to see how my political journey was any different.
The Pakistan that I believe in cannot be built on the ashes of an institution which has sacrificed so many lives in the journey to build Pakistan.
— - O M A R . O M A R I - (@omaromari_PTI) May 23, 2023