LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has begun to reorganise the party in Punjab by notifying a four-member Lahore district body.

The party has begun reorganisation of the party after poor performance in bringing out protest rallies in Lahore and other districts in the province. The party had constituted a 26-member committee to plan and organise public meetings in Punjab but all the leadership remained in hiding and did not participate in the protest planned on the call of party’s founder chairman Imran Khan.

PTI central Punjab general secretary Hammad Azhar, who had constituted the committee and himself became convener of the committee, also did not participate in any protest rally. He has been in self-imposed hiding and has got bail from the Peshawar High Court.

In the latest move, Mr Azhar has constituted a three-member committee of the district organisation of Lahore. Mr Asghar Gujjar has been appointed as Lahore district president, Shabbir Gujjar as senior vice-president, Abdul Karim as senior vice-president and Hafiz Zeeshan as general secretary.

Congratulating the new office-bearers, Mr Azhar hoped that the new body would be able to organise and activate the party in Lahore.

ARREST: The Punjab Police on Saturday raided the office of party MPA Farrukh Javed Moon and arrested his four employees and shifted them to some unidentified location.

In a statement on X on Saturday, Mr Azhar said Farrukh Moon had organised a rally on four-wheelers and two-wheelers carrying party flags and the very next day police raided his office.

Published in Dawn, April 28th, 2024