Rawalpindi
\nPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Sher Afzal Marwat Friday claimed that Barrister Gohar Ali Khan was \u201cremoved\u201d as the chairman of the former ruling party over \u201cunsatisfactory\u201d performance.
\nHis remarks came a day after Gohar announced that the PTI\u2019s next chairman nominee is Barrister Ali Zafar. The party\u2019s internal elections are scheduled to take place on March 3.
\nThe former ruling party\u2019s top post had been lying vacant for more than a month after not only the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), but the Supreme Court also declared its intra-party elections unlawful and stripped the party of its iconic bat symbol.
\nTherefore, Gohar, who became the chairman as a result of those elections, was not the party head anymore. But as the party is set to hold its next elections, it has chosen someone else other than him.
\nTalking to Geo News, Marwat said: \u201cIncompetence and poor performance are the reasons behind Gohar\u2019s removal as chairman. Barrister Gohar is a gentleman but his performance was not satisfactory.\u201d
\nResponding to a question, the PTI leader said that Gohar failed to meet the workers\u2019 expectations. \u201cTo run a party office, one has to be active all the time, but this did not happen.\u201d
\nFollowing the election results, the party leadership\u2019s approach was not commendable, he said, adding that Gohar should have led the party after the polls but he failed.
\nA day earlier, Gohar, while announcing the nominee for the top slot said: \u201cThis time, our candidate for party chairman will be Barrister Ali Zafar and Omar Ayub secretary general.\u201d
\nHe said everyone should do everything in their power to ensure that Zafar is elected as the party\u2019s next chairman.
\nPTI spokesperson Raoof Hasan had announced holding intra-party polls to elect the chairman, central and provincial organising bodies on February 5 but the party, however, postponed the elections.
\nAs per the PTI\u2019s new election schedule, candidates intending to contest the intra-party polls can submit their nomination papers on February 23 and 24, with the scrutiny being carried out on February 25.
\nMeanwhile, the final decisions on nomination papers will be announced on February 27 and the polling will be held on March 3 at the party\u2019s central office as well as provincial secretariats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rawalpindi Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Sher Afzal Marwat Friday claimed that Barrister Gohar Ali Khan was \u201cremoved\u201d as the chairman of the former ruling party over \u201cunsatisfactory\u201d performance. His remarks came a day after Gohar announced that the PTI\u2019s next chairman nominee is Barrister Ali Zafar. The party\u2019s internal elections are scheduled to take place …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":61100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61122,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61096\/revisions\/61122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}