PTI founding member joins PML-N

People have realised double standards of PTI Chairman Imran Khan

PESHAWAR: Muhammad Tahir Khan Umarzai, one of the PTI’s founders and a close aide to Imran Khan, on Monday announced his joining the party’s erstwhile rival the PML-N.

“Imran Khan has used Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa for his own means and has played with the sentiments of the people,” Umarzai told reporters at a news conference at the Peshawar Press Club. He was flanked by PM’s Adviser Engineer Amir Muqam.



Umarzai said: “The PTI’s foundation was laid down on principles but things have completely changed,” adding, “This forces me to leave the PTI and join the PML-N.

Earlier, Muqam welcomed Umarzai to the PML-N fold.

He said people had realised double standards of PTI Chairman Imran Khan, terming it the reason why Khan’s close aides had been leaving him alone.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 7^th, 2017.