LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s old guard Fauzia Kasuri has resigned from the party chiding chairman Imran Khan for handing over the reins of the party to those ‘electable’ people she had fought against since PTI’s inception.

In her resignation posted on twitter bearing May 24 date, Ms Kasuri said she had become increasingly disenchanted by the direction the party had taken since 2013 and no longer see it as representative of the aspirations of the millions of undeserved citizens seeking a change in Pakistan.

She said the party led by Imran Khan was accepting ‘electable’ persons at the cost of workers, who in some cases laid down their lives for the cause. “Sadly, this was the final nail in the coffin,” she said.

Saying she can no longer defend the party actions, she urged the chairman to accept her resignation from the party.

PTI central information secretary Fawad Chaudhry said Ms Kasuri had resigned knowing she would be ousted from the party. She was issued a show-cause notice for writing an article against the PTI in a newspaper.

Answering her allegations that the party was embracing the ‘electable’ people she had fought against since party’s inception, Mr Chaudhry said nobody was being accepted who was facing corruption cases in NAB or courts.

Published in Dawn, May 24th, 2018