Tue, 21-Oct-2025

PTI founder stops return of party deserters

PTI founder calls for meeting with negotiating team

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf(PTI) founder and former prime minister Imran Khan stopped the return of leaders who had deserted the party.

A 7-member committee under the direction of founder PTI will decide the return of the leaders who left the party in difficult time.

The committee will be headed by Shah Mahmood Qureshi, while the committee will include Asad Qaiser, Hamid Khan, Shehryar Afridi, Barrister Gohar Khan and Shibli Faraz.

Shandana Gulzar has also been included in the committee and she will report on the cases of women and their reasons for leaving the party. After which the committee will send the final list of names to the founding PTI and he will take the final decision.

The party leadership has blocked the return of any leader to the party until the release of Imran Khan and the decision to return the leaders will be made only after the release of the PTI founder.

After May 9, 2023 incidents ,  a big number PTI leaders had announced to quit the party as a crackdown was launched against them for their incendiary speeches and attacking state installations.

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