Islamabad (Staff Report/Agencies): Former aviation minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan on Thursday announced to quit the PTI over the events of May 9.
“Attacking the memorials of our martyrs, the GHQ (General Headquarters), the corps commander’s house and Mianwali Air Base is equivalent to attacking the state, Sarwar said in a video statement and added, “I strongly condemn all these nefarious designs and impure actions. As a Pakistani, I demand that such people should be punished.”
The former minister said that while being a part of the PTI, he had disagreed with and objected to the policies of “confrontation with the state”.
Sarwar’s statement comes a day after he was arrested in Islamabad in a case registered against him at Taxila police station in connection with May 9 violence.