PTI leader booked for ‘threatening’ worker
Supporters of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) political party, chant slogans in support of Imran Khan, outside parliament building Islamabad, Pakistan April 3, 2022. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE
Former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) provincial assembly member Ejaz Khan Jazi has been booked on charges of threatening his party worker for campaigning against him in his constituency.
According to the complainant named Sohail Khan Afridi, he is a PTI activist from PP-16 Ratta Amral and he has backed the PTI candidate in the last election. “Because the former lawmaker has a bad reputation now in his constituency, he was attempting to get a party ticket for a deserving party member for the upcoming provincial assembly elections.” In this regard, he had organised an event to oppose Ejaz Khan, he said, and added that due to this the accused contacted him on his mobile phone and threatened to abduct him from his home and kill him.
He urged the police to initiate legal action against the accused since the former MPA has ‘turned a political issue into a personal one’.
According to a spokesperson for the police, the Ratta Amral police have received the complaint and begun legal proceedings against the former MPA.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 27th, 2023.