ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) top leadership has been taken captive by the party’s social media accounts and a few diasporic fan bases that the leadership acknowledges are making matters worse for the party and its imprisoned founder chairman, but they are powerless to stop.
In many US cities, campaigns against the Pakistan Army and its commander have been started on social media and on road screens in the wake of the recent PTI march to Islamabad. To stop the propaganda, some prominent party leaders have reached out to the PTI’s US chapter, but their appeals have been ignored.
A prominent PTI politician, who asked not to be identified, stated that they are reluctant to publicly criticize this anti-army propaganda for fear of being labeled “ghaddar (traitor)”.
