{"id":117372,"date":"2026-07-06T19:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T14:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=117372"},"modified":"2026-07-06T19:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T14:03:07","slug":"pti-suffers-setback-as-iftikhar-tayyab-quits-party-joins-ipp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pti-suffers-setback-as-iftikhar-tayyab-quits-party-joins-ipp\/","title":{"rendered":"PTI suffers setback as Iftikhar Tayyab quits party, joins IPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pti-declares-election-boycott-in-azad-kashmir\/\">PTI<\/a>) suffered a major political setback as prominent leader Iftikhar Tayyab has bid farewell to the party.<\/p>\n<p>PTI Vice President Iftikhar Tayyab left the party in Mirpur division and joined the Istehkam-e- Pakistan Party (IPP).<\/p>\n<p>Iftikhar Tayyab\u2019s joining the IPP was announced at a ceremony. IPP chief Abdul Aleem Khan and Azad Kashmir President Sardar Tanveer Ilyas welcomed him and donned a party muffler.<\/p>\n<p>IPP Secretary General Nisar Ansar Abdali was also present at the ceremony. Interestingly, just a day earlier, the local PTI leadership had sent recommendations to issue a party ticket to Iftikhar Tayyab. However, the very next day, he announced his departure from the party.<\/p>\n<p>According to political observers, Iftikhar Tayyab\u2019s joining the IPP is likely to make the election contest in LA-5 Barnala constituency more fierce and interesting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ca5c6a elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3ca5c6a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-title.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Bilal Butt parts ways with PML-N AJK Lahore Division, joins IPP<\/h3>\n<p>General Secretary of the Muslim League (N) Azad Jammu and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/azad-kashmir-election-former-assembly-members-join-istiqlabi-pakistan-party\/\">Kashmir<\/a>\u00a0Lahore Division, Bilal Butt, has announced his separation from the party.<\/p>\n<p>The former General Secretary of PMLN has now joined the Pakistan Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP).<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, the reason for the decision is said to be the non-availability of a party ticket for the LA-34 constituency of the Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly. Bilal Butt had applied for a ticket from the constituency.<\/p>\n<p>He had earlier been elected Vice Chairman on an N League ticket from Union Council 90 and has been playing an active role in organizational matters.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, he did not attend an important party meeting regarding the Azad Kashmir elections yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Some participants criticized his supporters for his absence, while some called Bilal Butt self-serving. However, no position has been taken by Bilal Butt yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) suffered a major political setback as prominent leader Iftikhar Tayyab has bid farewell to the party. PTI Vice President Iftikhar Tayyab left the party in Mirpur division and joined the Istehkam-e- Pakistan Party (IPP). Iftikhar Tayyab\u2019s joining the IPP was announced at a ceremony. IPP chief Abdul Aleem Khan and Azad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":117374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9322,43573],"class_list":["post-117372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-ipp","tag-iftikhar-tayyab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117375,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117372\/revisions\/117375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}