Shireen Mazari, Imran Khan’s aide, quits celebration over violent protests

By India Today World Desk: In a major blow to Imran Khan, Shireen Mazari, an aide of the earlier Pakistan prime minister, has launched her decision to depart Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, following the May 9 assault on the nation’s navy installations and authorities buildings.

Shireen Mazari is the latest politician to surrender Imran Khan’s celebration, after Jai Parkash and Mubeen Khilji. So far, Mahmood Baqi Moulvi, Aamer Mehmood Kiani, Sanjay Sagwani, Malik Aslam Amin, Hisham Inamullah, Dr Muhammad Amjad, Dr Imran Ali Shah, Karim Gabol, Faiz Kamoka, and Pir Saeedul Hassan have quit the celebration.

Shireen Mazari’s resignation from PTI comes hours after she was launched from a jail on the orders of a excessive court docket docket. Mazari, 72, who has been a vocal critic of Pakistan’s navy and the federal authorities of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, was arrested 5 events in over 10 days.

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Mazari was first arrested on May 12 from her residence in Islamabad as part of a crackdown launched by the Pakistan authorities on PTI supporters. The PTI employees had been picked up for the violent protests that adopted Imran Khan’s dramatic arrest on May 9, the place they attacked navy installations and authorities buildings.

Imran Khan was arrested by the paramilitary Pakistan Rangers in a corruption case whereas he was on the Islamabad High Court premises that triggered unrest all through the nation. Khan, who faces over 100 circumstances, was later launched on bail and has acquired defending bail in opposition to arrest in all circumstances.

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For the first time in Pakistan’s historic previous, the protesters stormed the army headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi and likewise torched a corps commander’s residence in Lahore. Mazari had condemned the violent protests.

Jai Parkash, a Hindu chief in Imran Khan’s celebration, had condemned the violent protest demanding Imran Khan’s launch throughout the strongest phrases. “Pakistan exists because of the army, and we exist because of Pakistan,” he had acknowledged.

PTI leaders Asad Umar, Fawad Chaudhry, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Omer Cheema, Ali Mohammad Khan, Senator Ejaz Chaudhry and others had been taken into custody as part of the federal authorities crackdown.