'Whose side are you on?' PTI's Tareen gets trolled for welcoming Mustafa Kamal

Former mayor of Karachi Mustafa Kamal’s return after a gap of two years was expected to cause a tremor in the ranks of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).Unexpectedly, though, his announcement to form a political party and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s leader Jahangir Tareen’s subsequent endorsement of Kamal as a ‘civilised alternative’ to MQM did not go well with others in his own party.

"I welcome Mustafa Kamal's reentry to Karachi politics. It will provide a civilized alternative to the Karachi community following Altaf Hussain all these years," Tareen tweeted.

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However, PTI's Karachi organiser Ali Zaidi took severe exception to this and tweeted, "Instead of saying that our stand is vindicated you tweet this? PTI  was/is the civilized alternative! Who's side are you on?"

Soon, another party leader, Ali Muhammad Khan, followed suit, saying, "There WAS and there IS only one alternative to AH & MQM in Karachi & that IS Imran Khan."

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Twitter users soon joined the discussion and some wondered whether Zaidi would question even Khan's loyalty to the party.

Some asked whether Tareen was insinuating that PTI wasn't civisiled enough.

This Twitter user called out Jahangir's tweet as a bad move

'Karachi needs an alternative to you'

A few couldn't refrain from having a good laugh

This one couldn't decide who to side with

One Twitter user advised Zaidi not to wash his dirty laundry in public

A few decided not to side with either and went for Mustafa Kamal

This one stated the obvious