Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Sher Afzal Marwat has been removed from the party’s core and political committee on the orders of party founder Imran Khan, PTI Secretary General Omar Ayub Khan said on Thursday.
The development came a day after Marwat openly blasted senior PTI leaders for refusing to work under them.
“I refuse to work with Shibli Faraz and Omar Ayub […],” Marwat told reporters outside Adiala jail in Rawalpindi on Wednesday.
In a media interview after the meeting of the jailed PTI founder in Adiala jail today, PTI Secretary General said that he had ordered Marwat to remind him of the reasons when Imran Khan tried to “damage” relations with Saudi Arabia.
Ayub, the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, said Marwat had repeatedly warned him not to violate the party’s policy.
Marwat appeared on television last month and claimed that Saudi Arabia, along with the United States, played a role in toppling Imran Khan’s government in April 2022.
After the controversial statement was leaked to the media, PTI top brass claimed that Marwat had a role in the so-called “operational change” of the kingdom.
Ayub said in a press conference today that the political committee has ordered to take full action against Marwat.
Ayub said that despite being the party’s general secretary, the power to take the final decision lies with the jailed leader and was appointed as the leader of the opposition on Khan’s orders.
He said that he has no right to decide who keeps the PTI founder in jail.
