PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf provincial president Junaid Akbar has said that they will not look to Chief Minister Ali Amin Khan Gandapur to fund the party’s upcoming public gathering, scheduled for February 8 in Swabi.

Mr Akbar, a sitting MNA from Malakand, who has been given the charge of PTI provincial president recently, said in a video message that Mr Gandapur took the mantle of party’s president at a time when no one was ready for it.

He said that Mr Gandapur took the party’s responsibility at a really difficult time and supported party in many of its protests and other activities. However, he said that now they needed to change the culture and take ownership.

Mr Akbar asked party workers and leaders to make the gathering a success. He said that he devised a system so that middle class people could do politics. He said that he would enforce a system at district as well as provincial level for the purpose.

He said that party workers and leaders should contribute whatever they could to make Swabi gathering a success.

He said that they were going to observe February 8 as black day as their mandate was stolen by the state institutions and the then government on the same day last year.

Published in Dawn, January 31st, 2025