‘Aleema Khan orchestrating abusive campaign against my dead parents’

Former member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Sher Afzal Marwat on Friday levelled a series of allegations against the sister of former premier Imran Khan, Aleema Khan, accusing her of orchestrating a trolling campaign against him and an abusive campaign against his late parents through social media.

“I was nominated in 57 FIRs [First Information Reports], two of my houses were demolished and I endured jail. Yesterday, my dead parents were subjected to an abusive campaign,” Marwat said while appearing on a private media outlet, adding that all this was being done despite all the sacrifices he had made for the party.

He alleged that Aleema was orchestrating the trolling and abusive campaign as “she is the social media boss”.

Claiming that Aleema’s behaviour had always been “bossy” towards party leaders, Marwat said that PTI members also suffered “extremely inhumane treatment” at her hands.

He further claimed that when he complained to the PTI founder about Aleema’s behaviour, Imran, in the presence of 29 party bigwigs, said that “nobody will answer Aleema’s phone as she has nothing to do with party matters”.

“Following the complaint, she openly came against me,” Marwat said, adding since then the PTI social media team as well as supporters like Shahbaz Gill and Imran Riaz Khan had been trolling him.

Recalling an incident of Aleema’s alleged bossy attitude, Marwat said that during Ramzan, she summoned a party meeting at the Central Secretariat. “Barrister Gohar told Aleema that he had to go attend an iftar, to which she said, ‘You can’t even move’.”

Commenting on Aleema recently being barred from visiting her brother, Marwat argued that party Secretary General Salman Akram Raja and Aleema Khan have had the most meetings with Khan. “Just because they refused to meet twice, they act like it’s the end of the world,” he said.

Marwat had earlier this month also made headlines for claiming that PTI could not stage protests as it had been weakened politically, publicly and ideologically since last April.

“We wasted last year, which was the year of protests and practical work. From April of last year to this April, PTI has been weakened ideologically, politically and publicly. We are not in a position to stage a protest,” he had said.

 
Questioning what he called the “silence of PTI leaders” after giving hope to people that a protest would be staged right after Eid, Marwat said the PTI knew there was nobody to lead the protest.