Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry parts ways with Imran Khan as he resigned from the party position of Senior Vice President.
PTI leader announced his separation from the party as well as ‘break’ from politics on his Twitter account.
“I have decided to take a break from politics, therefore, I have resigned from party position and parting ways from Imran Khan,” he wrote in the tweet.
Last week, after he managed to obtain bail from Islamabad High Court (IHC) following a dramatic sprint towards the court’s building to avert potential re-arrest, Fawad Chaudhry strongly condemned the violent protests that took place on May 9 following the arrest of PTI Chief Imran Khan.
PTI leader expressed his disapproval of the events and as the party’s spokesperson, he described the events as “extremely shameful”.
Fawad Chaudhry had joined PTI in 2011. He was elected to the National Assembly from NA-154 (Rawalpindi-II) in the 2013 general elections.
He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a PTI candidate from NA-154 (Rawalpindi-II) in the 2018 general polls.
He also served as the federal minister for information and science and technology during PTI’s tenure.
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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former information minister Fawad Chaudhry was arrested on Wednesday outside the Supreme Court (SC) after hide and seek with the police lasting for over 10 hours.
Islamabad police managed to apprehend the PTI leader after nearly 12 hours as he was not coming out of the top court’s building.
Several PTI key leaders including Omer Sarfraz Cheema Aliya Hamza and Asad Umar were apprehended earlier in the day while others were booked in different cases. His apprehension is an addition to the tally.
Prior to his arrest, Fawad said that the police were trying to arrest him despite he had obtained protective bail from the Islamabad High Court (IHC) till May 12.
The former minister said that he had filed a petition in the IHC for implementation of its order. However, he remarked after his arrest, “We are ordinary individuals; the courts will not open for us in the middle of the night.”
Islamabad police detained Chaudhry under Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Ordinance (MPO).
