Salman Akram Raja, a senior official, and Sahibzada Hamid Raza, the chairman of the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC), have resigned from important positions in the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), indicating rifts within the party’s top leadership.
The senior PTI leaders’ resignations followed the sudden “postponement” of the Imran Khan-founded party’s highly anticipated “do-or-die” rally in Islamabad in the early hours of Wednesday due to a police raid that resulted in the detention of about 1,000 supporters.
After meeting with PTI founder Imran Khan, who is currently incarcerated, the SIC chairman also made the decision to legally resign from his position as a member of the National Assembly, according to sources who spoke to TD News.
Speaking on Thursday’s “Capital Talk” show on Geo News, senior PTI leader Raoof Hasan confirmed the incident and stated that the party’s strategic
