On Tuesday, PTI leader Omer Ayub announced that Imran Khan, the party’s founder, had selected Junaid Khan to be the deputy speaker and Amir Dogar as the speaker of the National Assembly.
Following several discussions with Ayub and other party leaders following the PTI chief’s imprisonment at Adiala Jail, the statement was made.
During the PTI government, Dogar was the NA’s chief whip. During Imran’s presidency, he also functioned as the prime minister’s special assistant for political matters. Following the rioting on May 9, Dogar was one among numerous PTI leaders who were taken into custody.
Dogar won the NA-149 constituency in Multan in the general elections held on February 8. In the lower house of Parliament, he has been reappointed as the PTI top whip.
As for Imran’s choice for the NA deputy speaker, Junaid Khan, who from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Malakand area, had won the polls.
Ayub claimed in his media appearance today that Junaid was among the PTI’s founding members and had demonstrated his loyalty to the group in the face of numerous obstacles.
“The PTI will form governments, God willing,” he continued.
Nonviolent demonstration on Saturday
Ayub further declared that the PTI would stage nonviolent demonstrations against purported election manipulation on Saturday, March 2, throughout the nation.
“We will protest against this along with several other parties, the massive rigging in the polls… the way several returning officers reduced our seats through Form-45s,” he declared.
Ayub claimed, “This kind of rigging never took place in the history of Pakistan,” and that the people’s mandate had been stolen.
“Last night, during the recounting, our seat in Lodhran was stolen. We will fight against this until the day we die, going to court, protesting in assemblies, and organizing the public.”
“Because Imran Khan was given the mandate by the nation,” he stated. “Our jihad is for the truth, and our quaid has taught us to fight to the death. For this reason, the Pakistani people have granted us a majority, and we are armed with Form-45s,” the PTI chief continued.
Separately, PTI chief Asad Qaiser declared that the party will plan the “next step” and outline a course of action in response to widespread worries over the 2019 elections.
Speaking to the media outside of Adiala Jail, he declared, “We have a one-point agenda that whenever elections are held in the country, they should be free and fair.”
Qaiser called on the public to join the PTI’s nonviolent demonstration on Saturday, saying, “We will continue our struggle in the country as per the law and Constitution.”
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