Daily Times

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter workers set wheel of agitation in motion in favor their demands to hold intra party election and remove the minister’s slot from the party cabinet immediately.

In this connection, the second PTI workers meeting held in Nowshera on Saturday after Peshawar which will continue across the province in order to stimulate workers for the intra party election. The workers mutually demanded party chairman Imran Khan to hold intra party elections and fill the provincial cabinet through proper election instead of nomination by the PTI Core Committee in 2016. Headed by former District Peshawar Zafarullah Khattak the workers showed their reservations on the nomination of PTI Regional President Shah Farman, District Peshawar President Arbab Jandad and General Secretary Muhammad Asim Khan.

Talking to Daily Times Zafar Khattak said that they have started a movement against the occupants in party who created hurdle in the way of workers. He said that his first meeting had held in Peshawar on Wednesday and this one is the second workers meeting while the process would be continue in all districts.

Khattak said that both party leaderships and workers are not satisfied from the performance of regional president Shah Farman, Peshawar president Arbab Jandad and District Peshawar Nazim Asim Khan, however, they have occupied the key offices which result would be harmful for party in coming general election.

He blamed that regional president Shah Farman even not attend a worker phone call. He said that PTI has win general election in 2013 due to the hard work of workers and now they received misbehavior from regional president.

Khattak along with hundred other workers demanded PTI Chairman Imran Khan to save the future of party and remove these office bearers. About future of the workers movement, Khattak shared that the number of workers increases day by day and now they are planning to meet with party chief Imran Khan and informed him regarding the ground reality.

However, Central vice president of the PTI Fazal Khan said that some of the leaders in the party provoking the workers to adopt politics of agitation with aim to disrupt the party at the province. He said that PTI has rooted in province due to its performance during the past few years therefore a band of a few workers demands should not be taken serious or consider injurious for the party cause in the province.

Fazal Khan said that central leadership of the party will address all reservations of the workers but those playing at the hand of opponents would be face the music.

It is worth mention here that PTI leadership at the KP consider the workers not that much of importance to be negotiate which is making the party stance and reputation malign in the province.

Nowsehra meeting of the workers was attended by the most senior leadership of the party although currently off from party screen.

The workers met under the leadership of former president of the district Peshawar Zafar Khaatk, Naheed Khattak, former women president of Peshawar, Yousif Ali, former General Secretary of district Swabi, Malik Awar, Advocate Nasir Kha from Charssdda district, Dr Inayat former General Secretary of Peshawar and Zahid Mohmand most recent president of the Peshawar district. The meeting was held at the native constituency of Chief Minister Pervez Khattak at the residence of Advocate Gul Bath Khan Amana Garh Nowsehra.