ISLAMABAD - The six-member emergency committee of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will devise a strategy in the wake of party chairman Imran Khan's arrest by the Rangers personnel from the Islamabad High Court (IHC) yesterday.
Secretary General Asad Umar took to Twitter immediately to condemn the arrest and announced that the six-member committee would announce the party’s next plan of action. Fearing his arrest, the deposed premier and PTI chairman Imran Khan had on March 14, given the approval to form the committee. Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Saifullah Khan Niazi, Azam Swati, Ejaz Chaudhry, Murad Saeed, and Ali Amin Gandapur are part of the emergency committee. Expressing his dismay, Umar stated, “Pakistan’s biggest political leader was arrested after an attack on the high court. The whole world is being shown that there is no law in the country.” He further said that the committee, formed by Imran Khan and headed by Shah Mehmood Qureshi, will formulate PTI’s strategy keeping in view the new development.