Gulalai Wazir, an MNA on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ticket on seats reserved for woman in 2013, Tuesday parted ways with the party amid myriad of serious allegations against party chief Imran Khan of exploiting female party workers.
Speaking at a press conference soon after a group of other women, PTI leaders led by Dr Shireen Mazari blasted the lady MNA for levelling "baseless allegations" against party chairman, Gulalai contended that she had all "obnoxious" text messages sent to her by Imran Khan. "I've all the obnoxious messages which Imran had sent to me, which I can't share here. To Pashtun women nothing matters but honour and dignity, but unfortunately in PTI, there is no respect for women," she claimed.
She demanded the PTA to retrieve the data of the text messages which, according to her, Imran had been sending to her since 2013. Gulalai, who used to be a star MP during her association with PTI, spoke her heart out like a 'thirsty tigress', caged by PTI, and said PTI is not a good choice for women at all as the chief of the party treats women like a "westerner." "Khan, remember it is not UK, it is Pakistan, and here you can't talk to women like this," she said without elaborating any further. She said that she did not expect this from a powerful opposition leader who is quite popular among female workers of his party.
The lady MNA who hails from Waziristan Agency but has been settled in Peshawar for the last so many years, took great pride in her being a tribal woman, and quickly drew a comparison between her former party chairman and his arch rival Nawaz Sharif, saying the latter is 'an honourable man while the former knows nothing how to treat women."
She was all praise for other parties, especially Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), with which she remained associated for a couple of years before joining PTI. "I've remained in PPP, which gives respect to its women, but in PTI, MNAs are disgraced," she alleged.
To a question about her joining PML-N, she said that she has no plan to join any party, but she did say that she has all the respect for other political parties except PTI which, according to her, is not a good platform for women to be associated with given the "bad character" of Imran Khan.
She alleged that Imran Khan used derogatory language against Benazir Bhutto in party meetings which were in no way appropriate. She also levelled corruption allegations against KP Chief Minister Pervez Khattak. Earlier, the PTI women leaders headed by Shireen Mazari blasted Gulalai, saying she has launched a malicious character assassination campaign against Imran Khan at the behest of his opponents who are quite perturbed after Nawaz Sharif's disqualification.
Mazari came down hard on Gulalai, and accused her of levelling baseless allegations against party chairman Imran Khan for denying ticket to her for a National Assembly seat from Peshawar, from where the lady wanted to contest in 2018 general elections despite having no political background.
"She [Gulalai] wanted to contest from NA-1 (Peshawar), which was not possible due to which the lady from Waziristan had nothing but resorting to cheap blackmailing tactics.
The PTI is only party which gives respect to its women workers and takes all of them in great esteem," Mazari maintained. Gulalai broke the news through a Facebook post. "Due to immoral character of Imran Khan and the gang around him, calling PTI workers "worthless" and "chotay workers" and rampant corruption by Imran Khan's agent Pervez Khattak in KP, MNA Ayesha Gulalai Wazir has left PTI," she shot a message on her Facebook page.
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