Fauzia Kasuri. PHOTO: WASEEM NIAZ
Former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf women wing leader Fauzia Kasuri officially announced her decision to quit the party on Wednesday.
Announcing her decision she stated that the party had been taken over by ‘mafias and lobbies’. “This is not the party that used to talk of giving people their rights,” she said addressing a press conference, at the National Press Club.
“Imran Khan gave us hope and courage to work for change – he is a great leader and he has always spoken of righteousness, change for good and eradicating poverty,” she added. Responding to a question she alleged that PTI had never held fair intra-party elections. She accused party election commissioner Hamid Khan of defrauding her by not allowing her to contest the party elections.
“These people allowed four dual nationality holders to contest the elections who were later disqualified, damaging the party’s reputation,” the former PTI leader said.
She blamed the top leadership of the party for not conducting audits of donations being collected locally and from abroad. “Whenever I talked over the issue Saifullah Khan Niazi who was in-charge of the accounts got upset and annoyed,” Kasuri added.
Responding to another question, she stated “it is not simply a matter of becoming an MNA, but workers who are sincere with the party should be encouraged and acknowledged”.
However, denying Kasuri’s claims, a spokesman of the party said that it was wrong to state that her name was not included in the list for the seats reserved for women and if only the party had managed to bag more votes she might have been selected.
Regarding the issue of not contesting the intra-party elections, PTI spokesperson told The Express Tribune that the elections were held on March 21, 2013 while Kasuri relinquished her US citizenship after that. “But nonetheless we respect her and consider her our asset. We are still making efforts to bring her back into the party fold,” the PTI spokesman said.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 6th, 2013.
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Oops! Should have hung on to the US passport!
@Nika Patwari: A party which will not divert from the course of its ultimate mission, even for its mother figure is the only party that will deliver justice for Pakistan. If people outside do not understand the inner rules of PTI then they should refrain from making comments on the subject. Instead try to understand that RULES are RULES for us, even if it is Imran Khan himself.
There are two kind of PTI workers - those who are still there without being rewarded and those who are abandoning us in our hour of need when Khan is down politically and physically. Inshallah those of us who stood with Khan for only and only Pakistan will always standby him until MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Those who desert us were our heroes and heroins yesterday but today, they are NO BODIES. Good riddance to those who stood by us when it was the glamorous to do so and deserted us when we needed them - and just because their REAL goals were not met.
One thing is for sure, she would have remained quite about the "injustices" in the party had she been elected as an MNA. She is damaging her own reputation now.
One thing is for sure, she would have remained quite about the "injustices" in the party had she been elected as an MNA. Damaging her own reputation now.
Imran saying & doing are two different things
at the end of the day .. it all boils down to a 'seat' ! tsk tsk ..
Madam Fauzia a five years back many workers left the PTI becuase of you as you used to say that PTI constitution is nothing against my will and wish. If PTI get 30 to 40 seats from Punjab and you were accommodated on the reserve seats on women then everything was ok. You are going to take wrong decision. Good luck if you are going to join any party.
What ever she said ..she was quite honest in that. Imran Khan must take notice of all the allegations which she put on some of the Party Senior members.
A party which can't provide justice to their mother, how will they provide to the whole nation.