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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has been targeted by its own overseas social media groups causing continuous problems for the party, its leadership, and PTI founder Imran Khan.
As per details, after the recent PTI’s march towards Islamabad, the campaign has been launched against the Pakistan Army. This campaign has been run by the Pakistani diaspora community through social media platforms owned by PTI, especially in US cities.
These campaigns are creating serious concern among the PTI leadership and it creating problems between the PTI leadership and Pak Army relations.
Party leaders have contacted PTI’s US chapter to stop the propaganda, but their requests have fallen on deaf ears.
The overseas social media of PTI are out of control of even the party’s leaders Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, Secretary General Salman Akram Raja, and Information Secretary Waqas Akram Shaikh.
As per ‘The News’ reports, ‘some senior PTI leadership is under great pressure from some select groups of diaspora supporters that they (the leaders) avoid speaking in public about anything negating the propaganda, even if it is untrue or exaggerated’.
The News report further claimed that, ‘a party insider informed that during the army chief’s last visit to the US, some protests were arranged by the PTI supporters there. PTI leader from Pakistan contacted the party’s US chapter to stop them as they were not considered in the interest of Pakistan’.
Reportedly, PTI leaders have no fear of agencies or law enforcers but of their violent followers and social media activists as during the D-Chowk march, Chief Minister Ali Amin became hostage of the hostile workers.
When PTI Information Secretary Shaikh Waqas was approached regarding running campaigns in the US against the army and its chief, he clarified that such campaigns are not sponsored by the party. They are doing it on their own and there is neither such policy nor any direction from the PTI, he added. He claimed that those involved in these hateful campaigns are also not listening to us (PTI leadership)
Courtesy: The News
