Javed Hashmi gave his resignation from PTI Presidency

Pakistan MULTAN News: Suspended by his party due to allegations against Imran Khan, the elected president of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Javed Hashmi announced his resignation from the party presidency and its membership on Wednesday.

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Javed Hashmi said that he could no longer continue his membership with a party 'conspiring' to de-rail the democracy in Pakistan. He added that "There are a few hypocrites with Imran,"I have told him the bad times have begun for his party."  Earlier, PTI had suspended the membership of Hashmi and had summoned him to the party secretariat to explain his case on September 29. PTI leader Shafqat Mehmood said that Hashmi had failed to explain his position as asked by the PTI. He said "The party will take suitable action in this case".  PTI Chairman Imran Khan had earlier announced that he had separated his ways with Hashmi for opposing the march on the Prime Minister`s House. During his speech on the floor of Parliament on September 2, Hashmi had clarified that despite his differences with the party’s high command, he was still PTI’s democratically elected president. In the memorable speech to the joint session of Parliament, the seasoned politician had claimed that no PTI MNA had happily presented resignation to the party leadership and that a system existed in the country “to engineer making and breaking of governments.” He made the claims shortly after disclosing he said that “this is a scripted plan to overthrow the government, using violent protests as a pretext.”  Hashmi had accused Imran Khan of avoiding a decision of the PTI’s core committee not to join Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri’s march on Prime Minister’s House after receiving a message from ‘somewhere’.