Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Saturday revealed an audio leak between Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Ali Amin Gandapur and an unidentified individual on armed men joining PTI chairman Imran Khan’s long march to Islamabad.
Sanaullah played the clip while speaking to journalists at a press conference. Gandapur can be heard enquiring about the numbers of licensed weapons men will be bringing in tow. “Scores,” the man can be heard replying to the former minister.
Sanaullah said Khan’s long march was a conspiracy to undermine the nation. Quoting now-expelled PTI leader Faisal Vawda’s Wednesday presser, the interior minister said he had exposed Khan’s anti-State agenda. He said this explained Vawda’s quick expulsion from the party following the very-recent presentation of a show-cause notice.
PTI Expels Faisal Vawda
Imran Khan on Saturday expelled Vawda for not responding to a show-cause notice “within the stipulated timeframe.” Therefore, the party said in a letter, his membership stood “terminated”.
Vawda had said on Wednesday that Imran’s long march may result in a bloodbath. The then PTI leader said he feared those who had killed journalist Arshad Sharif had also conspired to execute this.
He said the conspiracy to kill Arshad had been hatched in Pakistan. This, Vawda said, had been executed in a planned fashion.
The PTI leader said Arshad had either been killed at point blank range. “Nobody else was hurt,” he said.
