Pakistan: Bushra Bibi’s sister ‘disappointed’ as PTI leaders’ protest fails

Pakistan: Following Tuesday’s unsuccessful protest, Bushra Bibi, the wife of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder Imran Khan, expressed her disappointment with the party leadership in an interview with ARY News, according to Maryam Riaz Wattoo, her sister. Bushra Bibi showed up to the PTI’s political committee meeting without being invited, Wattoo said, ARY News.

Wattoo informed ARY News that Bushra Bibi was dissatisfied with the party’s leadership and questioned why they weren’t present at the gathering at D Chowk in Islamabad. The party leaders abandoned Bushra Bibi when she needed them, she said. She also said that a day after she was purportedly brought to an unidentified location in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, she spoke with Bushra Bibi over the phone.

Following allegations that Bushra Bibi had spoken inappropriately to party leaders, the development occurred. Following a tense meeting in which Pakistan’s former first lady addressed them appropriately, PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja and other prominent figures quit, according to ARY News.

Bushra Bibi is accused of using derogatory terms, such as “vultures” and “beghairat,” to characterize the PTI leaders at a party gathering of ten leaders that took place before the rally on November 26 in Islamabad.

Following the demonstration in Islamabad, Salman Akram Raja quit his position as Secretary General of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday, according to ARY News. He handed in his resignation to Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, the chairman of the PTI.

According to Al Jazeera, the security forces dispersed the PTI demonstrators on the intervening nights of Monday and Tuesday after they disobeyed instructions and marched towards the nation’s capital at Bushra Bibi’s insistence. Both sides suffered injuries and casualties as a consequence of the conduct.

From Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the PTI supporters marched into Islamabad. Regaining the party’s “stolen mandate” from the February elections, releasing political prisoners like Imran Khan, and reversing the “constitutional amendment” that gives the government authority over judicial selections were the three demands of their protest, according to Al Jazeera.