Imran dissolves PTI organizations, constitutes committee for new party structure

Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed dissatisfaction over the party's performance in the local body elections and dissolved all his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) organizations and parliamentary boards.

According to the 24News HD TV channel, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry held a media briefing after the party meeting chaired by Imran Khan as PTI Chairman.

Fawad told the media that Imran said that the tickets were distributed among the families in the local body elections.

In the meeting, the Prime Minister was apprised of the reasons for the defeat in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa local body elections from KP Chief Minister and Pervez Khattak.

He said Imran Khan as PTI Chairman has decided to dissolve all PTI organizations from the centre to tehsils level including all the party’s parliamentary boards and removed the chief organizers and office bearers from their posts.

The minister said that a new 21-member constitutional committee of PTI has been formed to work on the constitution and submit a report to the prime minister. This committee will also suggest the new infrastructure of the party.

In the committee Ali Amin Gandapur, Asad Qaiser, Fawad Chaudhry, Saifullah Niazi, Asad Umar, Usman Bazdar, Imran Ismail, Ali Zaidi and other leaders are included, he said.

The same committee will also look into the issue of tickets for local government elections in Punjab while in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the responsibility of the second phase of local body elections has been given to the Chief Minister KP, he added.