Janjivan Bureau / ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief today has call upon party meeting to consider the option to pursue legal action against Ayesha Gulalai.
According to details the meeting will be held in Bani Gala at 4 pm and will review Ayesha Gulalai scathing allegations and the party’s reaction over it.
Yesterday Ayesha Gulalai alleged that the honour of PTI female members is not safe from PTI chairman Imran Khan and his party members, and that Imran Khan sent improper text messages to party female members.
She discloses that the first message she received from Imran Khan was in October 2013 and many other female members also received those messages. She also said that Imran Khan keeps Blackberry phone and asks the female party members to also carry Blackberry so that messages couldn’t be track down.
She said that, “The messages contained words that nobody’s esteem would tolerate. They can be recover by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA)”.
Ayesha Gulalai further added that she had no intentions of joining the ruling party but at least PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif could be trusted for respecting women.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) women wing described false and intense accusations from Ayesha Gulalai as an attempt to earn cheap publicity.
PTI women wing asked Gulalai to seek forgiveness over unjustifiable allegations or else Jirga (a tribal council) would be sent to her home.
“Imran Khan respects all women and as far as text messages are taken into consideration, he does not own a blackberry. These allegations have hurt sentiments of PTI workers,” said Zareen Zia.
Zareen inquired why Gulalai did not show vicious messages before media and added that burden of proof lies on Gulalai and stated that later launched allegations against Khattak without even working with him.
Meanwhile, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Pervez Khattak termed allegations of Ayesha Gulalai as an attack to disparage provincial government.
Imran Khan sent me inappropriate text messages: Ayesha Gulalai
Former member of Pakistan’s National Assembly Ayesha Gulalai on Tuesday alleged that the Chairman of Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan had sent her inappropriate text messages. Gulalai announced earlier in the day that she is leaving PTI on the grounds that the honour of women is not safe within the party. “We are respectful pashtoons, our dignities aren’t safe in PTI,” she tweeted on Tuesday. “Imran Khan cannot keep himself under control,” she later claimed in a press conference.
“I received the first message in October 2013, you can check Imran’s phone,” she said, adding that the PTI chairman urges other women to use Blackberry cellphones so messages cannot be traced.” Gulalai alleged that all the messages are there on Khan’s Blackberry and a record of the same can also be retrieved from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. She also challenged Imran Khan to make their blackberry conversation public.
“The messages contained words that cannot be tolerated by any respectful individual,” she added.
Gulalai alleged that many other women in the party have also been facing similar situations. She said she felt very safe when she was a member of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) as the party respected its women members. “The honour of our mothers and sisters is not safe in Imran Khan’s hands,” she tweeted.
Gulalai alleged that Khan had used appalling words for the late Benazir Bhutto in a party meeting. She went on to say that he suffers from psychological issues and does not like talented people.
PTI’s chief whip in the Pakistan National Assembly, Shireen Mazari, responded to Gulalai’s initial announcement by saying that Gulalai was levelling false allegations against PTI chairman. As per a report in Dawn, Mazari claimed that Gulalai had called on PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Monday evening, along with a delegation, demanding he confirm a party ticket for her in the upcoming General Election from the NA-1 constituency. On failing to acquire the ticket, Gulalai had resorted to levelling false allegations against the party and personal attacks against Khan, Mazari alleged.
Gulalai rubbished Mazari’s claims in the press conference, saying the chief whip’s reasoning that she was leaving the party over the matter of a ticket seemed “illogical” and “strange”. She also said that Mazari has “always had issues (…) whenever I have spoken up about foreign policy in the NA. (…) Perhaps she thinks only she retains the right to speak about foreign policy.”
She also claimed she was facing personal attacks from Khan’s supporters. “Now Imran’s defenders have started personal attack on me (a woman) and at the same time defending IK for respecting women. Irony!” she tweeted.
Gulalai’s announcement was met with speculation from Pakistani media that she may be leaving PTI to join Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz). She dismissed the rumours by saying she was not joining PML-N.
