Murad Raas, former Punjab education minister and a provincial leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Friday announced that he was quitting the Imran Khan-led party due to the May 9 mayhem.
Addressing a press conference in Lahore on Friday, Raas said no amount of condemnation was enough for what happened on May 9. “We never thought we would part ways with the party,” he said alongside other leaders, including Pir Ahmad Khagga, Raja Yawar Kamal and Chaudhry Adnan.
He laid the blame for the party’s current predicament — facing intense criticism with scores of leaders and thousands of workers arrested across the country following the riots — on Khan’s advisers in Lahore.
“We do not believe in the PTI’s politics of violence,” the former provincial minister said.
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