{"id":18308,"date":"2023-08-03T16:57:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T11:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=18308"},"modified":"2023-08-03T16:57:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T11:57:21","slug":"pti-claims-central-leader-iftikhar-durrani-abducted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pti-claims-central-leader-iftikhar-durrani-abducted\/","title":{"rendered":"PTI claims central leader Iftikhar Durrani &#8216;abducted&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf&#8217;s (PTI) central leader Iftikhar Durrani went &#8220;missing&#8221; in the wee hours of Thursday, the party said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, PTI said its core member was &#8220;kidnapped&#8221; from Islamabad and that it was &#8220;gathering details about his kidnapping&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, there is still no confirmation about Durrani&#8217;s whereabouts, who served as special assistant on media to ex-prime minister Imran Khan.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ur\" dir=\"rtl\">\u062a\u062d\u0631\u06cc\u06a9 \u0627\u0646\u0635\u0627\u0641 \u06a9\u06d2 \u0645\u0631\u06a9\u0632\u06cc \u0631\u06c1\u0646\u0645\u0627 \u0688\u0627\u06a9\u0679\u0631 \u0627\u0641\u062a\u062e\u0627\u0631 \u062f\u0631\u0627\u0646\u06cc \u06a9\u0648 \u0627\u063a\u0648\u0627\u0621 \u06a9\u0631 \u0644\u06cc\u0627 \u06af\u06cc\u0627 <\/p>\n<p>\u0645\u0632\u06cc\u062f \u062a\u0641\u0635\u06cc\u0644\u0627\u062a \u062c\u0645\u0639 \u06a9\u06cc \u062c\u0627\u0631\u06c1\u06cc \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PTI (@PTIofficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PTIofficial\/status\/1686842593760460800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>PTI&#8217;s members and leaders have been facing arrests, rearrest, and other troubles ever since the May 9 riots when public and military installations were attacked by angry protesters enraged over the arrest of Imran Khan.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities have registered several cases against the top leadership for their alleged involvement and incitement against the military leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Following May 9 mayhem, several big names \u2014 including Parvez Khattak, Fawad Chaudhry, and Shireen Mazari \u2014 have quit PTI and some even politics.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said recently that May 9 was aimed at toppling military leadership, while the PTI chief was its mastermind.<\/p>\n<p>The premier said men, women, a cabal, some army men, and their families were involved in this which is dubbed &#8220;Black Day&#8221; by the military.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those involved in the May 9 incidents wanted to overthrow the military leadership.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to Durrani&#8217;s &#8220;abduction&#8221;, PTI leader Zulfi Bukhari strongly condemned it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You get abducted in the middle of the night with no cases on you &amp; your family  gets harassed.. only happens against one party in Pakistan today.<\/p>\n<p>Strongly condemn the illegal abduction of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IftikharDurani?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IftikharDurani<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ReleaseIftikharDurrani?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ReleaseIftikharDurrani<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IGtCboip9O\">pic.twitter.com\/IGtCboip9O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sayed Z Bukhari (@sayedzbukhari) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sayedzbukhari\/status\/1686856289207603200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You get abducted in the middle of the night with no cases on you &amp; your family gets harassed.. only happens against one party in Pakistan today.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf&#8217;s (PTI) central leader Iftikhar Durrani went &#8220;missing&#8221; in the wee hours of Thursday, the party said. In a statement, PTI said its core member was &#8220;kidnapped&#8221; from Islamabad and that it was &#8220;gathering details about his kidnapping&#8221;. Hours later, there is still no confirmation about Durrani&#8217;s whereabouts, who served as special assistant on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[733,7817,194],"class_list":["post-18308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-pakistan-tehreek-e-insaf","tag-zulfi-bukhari","tag-pti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18308","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}