Differences crop up in PTI Mansehra Chapter

MANSEHRA: Differences in Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Mansehra chapter, have emerged after Chief Minister Mahmood Khan didn’t take any MPA of the district into the provincial cabinet as a minister.

“We will stage a sit-in outside the prime minister’s Banigala residence in Islamabad against Senator Azam Khan Swati, who is hatching conspiracies against the party and forced the CM not to take MPA Babar Saleem Swati into the cabinet,” Khizar Lughmani, the president of Insaf Students Federation, told a party gathering here on Tuesday.

The party workers from different parts of the district showed up at the gathering. They criticised the provincial government for ignoring senior party workers in the recently selected governing body for Hazara division.

Lughmani said that party workers, who had rendered great sacrifices and joined party chief Imran Khan in his political struggle in the early days of PTI, were being ignored and newcomers were being given top slots.

Former senior district vice-president Dr Zaheer Khan said that people of the district elected an MNA and two MPAs in general election last year but none of them was either taken into the federal or provincial cabinet.