ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is also the chairman of the governing Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), announced the new party structure a day after dissolving all PTI bodies following a defeat in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa local body elections.
Fawad Chaudhry had stated a day earlier that the prime minister had disbanded the party structure following talks with senior party officials.
Fawad told the media following a meeting of the PTI’s top leadership here that all office-bearers in the PTI’s organisational setup had been removed from their positions, as the forum examined the KP LG elections and the country’s general condition.
According to the minister, Prime Minister Imran Khan was dissatisfied with the PTI’s performance in the first round of LG elections in KP, as well as the allocation of tickets.
Fawad had indicated that a 21-member constitutional committee comprised of national PTI leadership was working on the party’s new constitution.
Pervez Khattak, Mahmood Khan, Murad Saeed, Asad Qaiser, Ali Amin Gandapur from KP, Fawad, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Hammad Azhar, Khusro Bakhtiar, Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar, Saifullah Niazee, Amir Kayani, and Usman Buzdar from Punjab make up the delegation.
Similarly, he went on to say that Mir Jan Muhammad Jamali and Qasim Suri would represent Balochistan, while Imran Ismail and Ali Zaidi from Sindh and Asad Umar from the federal capital would be on the committee.
The minister stated that new PTI organisations would be formed following the permission of a committee comprised of senior members.
He had emphasised that the PTI was the largest political party in Pakistan, with the status of a national federal party, with Imran Khan as the federation’s head and his vote bank stretching from Gwadar to Khyber and from Karachi to Lahore.