Islamabad (Web Desk): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) Additional General Secretary Aamer Mehmood Kiani has announced to part ways with his party politics.
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Kiani said he would be parting ways with PTI after the attacks of May 9 on the security forces and military installations as he has to “rethink” his politics.
“My entire family, including my grandfather and everyone, we belong to an army family,” he said.
He said that the May 9 violence was a painful event because he is also “affiliated” with the army.
“Our domain is politics, and we should stay in it,” Aamer Kiyani added.
Meanwhile, PTI Sindh President Ali Zaidi Wednesday dismissed reports of leaving his party while also condemning the May 9 attacks on military installations.
"I condemn the May 9 incidents. Whatever happened on May 9 was terrorism," the former federal minister told journalists in Karachi outside a hospital where he had come for treatment.
Zaidi, who was arrested under Section 4 of the Maintenance of Public Order, has been put under house arrest and his residence in the port city has been declared a sub-jail.
Condemning the attacks on Radio Pakistan's Peshawar office, Lahore Corps Commander House, and the martyrs' monument, the PTI leader said he was "hurt" and mentioned: "We are from the Pakistan Army and the army is from us," Ali Zaidi said.
The former federal minister noted that differences exist in a family as well, but people should not resort to violence.
He added that the people have a right to peaceful protests under the Constitution.
the PTI leader said that he had come into politics through his current party's platform and would not leave it no matter what.
Ali Zaidi, other top-tier party leaders, and thousands of workers were rounded up after May 9, when PTI Chairman Imran Khan was arrested in the Al-Qadir corruption case.