1 week Ago By Imran Mukhtar
ISLAMABAD - Acting Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Gohar Ali Khan on Wednesday dismissed the criticism of the party Secretary General Salman Akram Raja for the former’s decision to meet with the jailed leader Imran Khan at a time when sisters of the ex-premier were not allowed to see their brother. He also expressed serious concerns over the word of “blue-eyed” used by Raja in an indirect reference to PTI lawyer Syed Ali Zafar. A day earlier, the PTI secretary general had said that some party leaders should not have met Khan in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail after the jail authorities didn’t allow sisters of the ex-premier to see their brother.
He said this after jail authorities allowed Gohar and PTI Senator Syed Ali Zafar to meet with the party founder while the names of those forwarded by Raja to the administration were barred for such a meeting. “Some blue-eyed of powers-that-be are allowed to meet (with Khan) and others are disallowed,” he had said. China, EU retaliate as Trump trade tariffs applied Chairman PTI Gohar in a veiled reference to Raja said that no one in the party should try to get cheap popularity.
“I enjoy the confidence of (party chief) Khan and is facing criticism for the last over one and a half year with an open heart,” he said. He went on to say that the PTI’s Political Committee never decided that lawyers would not meet with Khan if his sisters were banned from such a meeting. He noted that sisters of Khan were stopped at the entry of Adiala Jail on March 25 and questioned then why Raja and other lawyers had gone inside the premises to meet the party chief.
He said the committee never decided that other lawyers would not meet Khan if the name of one is dropped from the list. Tags: gohar rejects criticism meeting.
