PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja confirmed Imran Khan’s decision during a media briefing in Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n
The change in leadership was reportedly discussed during a meeting between Junaid Akbar and PTI Chairman Imran Khan in prison. Several other party leaders, including Atif Khan, Malik Ahmad Khan Bachhar, and Mian Farhat Abbas, were also present.<\/p>\n
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\u201cGandapur was satisfactorily handling his party responsibilities, on his request the PTI\u2019s founder has relieved him from the party office,\u201d Raja said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Gandapur requested to focus on his responsibilities as chief minister amidst pressing challenges, including law and order issues in the province.<\/p>\n
Salam Akram Raja also hinted at further leadership changes within the party, including the potential appointment of former MNA Alia Hamza to a significant role in Punjab.<\/p>\n
Talking about the ongoing negotiations with the government and PTI, Raja stated that the Imran Khan-founded party is open to a meeting on January 28 if the government proceeds with the proposal of forming to separate judicial commissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan on Saturday replaced Junaid Akbar as the president of the party’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter, sacking Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur. Khan’s decision came a day after Juniad Akbar was elected as the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) unopposed, ending the year-long standoff on PAC chairmanship between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":63571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3453,26048],"class_list":["post-63570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-ali-amin-gandapur","tag-junaid-akbar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63570","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63584,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63570\/revisions\/63584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}