{"id":19475,"date":"2023-10-05T00:12:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=19475"},"modified":"2023-10-05T00:12:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:12:27","slug":"usman-dar-quits-pti-claims-may-9-events-aimed-at-overthrowing-coas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/usman-dar-quits-pti-claims-may-9-events-aimed-at-overthrowing-coas\/","title":{"rendered":"Usman Dar quits PTI, claims May 9 events aimed at \u2018overthrowing\u2019 COAS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan\u2019s close aide Usman Dar Wednesday announced leaving the former ruling party, with May 9 \u2014 the day when PTI workers ransacked state installations after the ex-premier’s arrest \u2014 being the primary reason behind his decision.<\/p>\n

“The motive behind May 9 events was to overthrow the army chief [General Asim Munir],” Dar said during an interview with a private television channel, as he came to the fore days after PTI claimed he had been “abducted”.<\/p>\n

Dar’s brother-in-law filed a petition in the Sindh High Court, and a day earlier, the province’s top court directed police to register a case of his disappearance.<\/p>\n

But after resurfacing today, the now-former PTI leader blamed the party’s leadership for orchestrating the May 9 events.<\/p>\n

In what can be called a charge sheet against the PTI chief, Dar said Imran himself chaired the meeting that decided the “plan of action” if he were arrested.<\/p>\n

“The PTI chairman, in case of his arrest, ordered [the party] to target sensitive installations,” Dar said about Imran \u2014 who is currently imprisoned in Adiala jail. He was arrested on May 9 in a graft case, and although the sentence was suspended, he was sent to jail again in the ‘cipher’ case.<\/p>\n

Dar, who served as a special assistant during the PTI’s tenure, said Imran “brainwashed” party workers to thwart his arrest. “He used workers as a human sheild,” the former government official claimed.<\/p>\n

Dar has become the latest politician to quit the party, joining a long list of leaders \u2014 including Fawad Chaudhry, Shireen Mazari, and Pervez Khattak \u2014 who parted ways with Imran following May 9.<\/p>\n

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A crackdown was also launched against those involved in the events, leading to the arrest of hundreds of party workers and leaders \u2014 including Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi.<\/p>\n

Policy of confrontation<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I believe that the May 9 incident did not occur in a day,” Dar said, claiming that after the PTI was removed from power through a parliamentary no-confidence vote, “two mindsets” emerged in the party.<\/p>\n

One group \u2014 including Azam Swati, Hammad Azhar, Murad Saeed, and Farrukh Habib \u2014 was in favour of confrontational politics.<\/p>\n

The other group consisted of PTI leaders like Asad Umar, Omar Ayub, Ali Muhammad Khan, Shafqat Mehmood, and himself, who believed that the party should reconcile with the army.<\/p>\n

Dar said that PTI’s foundations shook post-May 9, asserting that it was the PTI chairman himself who supported an anti-state narrative.<\/p>\n

“The PTI chief is responsible for the current circumstances. Indeed, May 9 was a shameful day, of which no condemnation can be enough,” the ex-special assistant to then-premier Imran insisted.<\/p>\n

‘Why did Dar keep mum until now?’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Responding to the fresh development, PTI spokesperson Shoaib Shaheen asked why the former party stalwart kept mum on the matter of the May 9 incidents till now.<\/p>\n

He said that Sindh’s interim home minister had already confirmed that Dar was \u201cunder arrest\u201d.<\/p>\n

“Usman Dar endured a lot of things but there is a limit of tolerance,” Shaheen added.<\/p>\n

If Dar wanted to give the statement “voluntarily, why did he stay silent for so many days, the party spox added.<\/p>\n

He also said that the former ruling party also condemned the May 9 violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan\u2019s close aide Usman Dar Wednesday announced leaving the former ruling party, with May 9 \u2014 the day when PTI workers ransacked state installations after the ex-premier’s arrest \u2014 being the primary reason behind his decision. “The motive behind May 9 events was to overthrow the army chief [General Asim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,147],"tags":[10113,103],"class_list":["post-19475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-usman-dar","tag-imran-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19475","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=19475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}