District councillor quits PTI, joins JI

MANSEHRA: A close friend of senator-elect Azam Khan Swati and local leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Tahir Shah on Sunday parted ways with his party and joined Jamaat-e-Islami (JI). “I cannot trust Swati and Chief Minister Pervez Khattak anymore, who couldn’t fulfil their commitments with me and people of Hazara,” Shah, who was a district councillor of PTI, told a press conference at Al-Markazi-i-Islami on Sunday. JI’s Mansehra chief Sajjad Hussain Shah and tehsil naib nazim Qazi Zahidullah also addressed the press conference. Tahir Shah said that he was going to resign from his office of district councillor and contest coming general election for provincial PK-53 constituency on the JI ticket. “I have personally witnessed that PTI leaders including Chief Minister Pervez Khattak are not sincere to the party and taking steps that are totally against public mandate. They did nothing for the uplift of people in the province,” said Shah. He added that he and his group would welcome JI central amir Sirajul Haq in the district on March 13.