Sher Afzal Khan breaks silence
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PTI leader Sher Afzal Marwat showed up at the parliamentary party meeting on Tuesday and broke his silence.
He said he raised his reservations at the parliamentary party meeting.
“In the parliamentary party, I was requested to sit in the hunger strike camp. It would be arrogant if I did not participate in the hunger strike camp.”
He came down hard on Hamid Khan and his other critics saying: “Whoever criticizes me including Hamid Khan will get a satisfactory reply.
“The statements against me are being made to be in limelight.
He shrugged off a question about meeting Imran Khan, saying: “The question of meeting Khan is quite difficult, he is Khan and I am Khan too.
"I have offered my services to the party regarding the August 5 meeting."
Sher Afzal was removed from the party’s core and political committees on the direction of party founder Imran Khan over his controversial statements while he lashed out at senior party figures for what he called depriving him of the coveted position of the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
He alleged that Senate opposition leader Shibli Faraz was the one to inform Imran about the Saudi ambassador raising reservations about his nomination.
The PTI MNA, who is known for causing controversies, has previously accused both the US and Saudi Arabia of conspiring to topple the PTI government. The PTI had publicly distanced itself from his remarks while Marwat had chalked them off as his personal opinion, even as he continued to stick to them.
Addressing a press conference on the matter outside Adiala Jail after meeting Imran, Omer Ayub said: “Unfortunately, Imran Khan said: ‘Sher Afzal Marwat has dealt an uncountable loss to the PTI’s interests and relationship with Saudi Arabia, and by extension, Imran’s personal relations with Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, because of his misleading statements.’”
Sher Afzal responded: “I am resting and will speak only when Khan sahib listens to me and then decides on the issues. The media is requested to wait for my reply until then. However, I will stand by all the decisions of Khan sahib.”