PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf office-bearers in 10 union councils of the provincial capital on Monday announced resignation from their offices to protest the recent sacking of Yaseen Khalil as adviser to the chief minister.
Also in the day, some PTI activists took out a rally and blocked GT Road near the Lahore Bus Terminal against the removal of Shaukat Yousufzai as provincial minister.
Former nazim Gul Bashar Khalil told reporters at the Peshawar Press Club that the PTI workers had set the May 4 deadline for the reinstatement of Yaseen Khalil as adviser to the chief minister but neither the PTI leadership nor the provincial government heeded it forcing them to come onto the streets.
He said PTI Union Council Tehkal-II unit president Malik Shahzad Khan, Union Council 40 Tehkal Bala president Imadul Haq, Union Council 37 Shaheen Town president Asif Khan, Union Council 42 Malakander president Akhtar Gul, Union Council Hayatabad-I president Adnan, Union
Council Hayatabad-II president Farid Khan, Union Council 36 University Town and Union Council Hassan Ghari-II president Azam Khan along with all other office-bearers in their respective areas had resigned.
“We will set up a hunger strike camp outside the Town police station for indefinite period to press for our demands,” Mr Bashar said.
Meanwhile, PTI activists and sympathisers staged a rally on GT Road near the Lahore Bus Terminal before blocking it for sometime to protest the sacking of Shaukat Ali Yousufzai as minister.
The protesters led by Zahir Shah, Rasool Shah, Jalil Safi, Waheedur Rehman and Malik Wajid held banners and placards inscribed with slogans for the reinstatement of Yousufzai.
Shouting slogans against Jehangir Tareen, they alleged that the PTI central leader had conspired against the minister after his refusal to meet the former’s unfair demands.
They demanded that PTI chairman Imran Khan step in and save the party in the province.
The speakers called for strict action against those ‘plundering the province’s resources with both hands.’
They said the people had voted PTI to power in the province for bringing about a real positive change in the system of governance but that hadn’t happened due to the dishonesty of ‘certain people in the party’.
The protesters later dispersed saying they would come onto the streets against if the minister wasn’t restored.