Hammad Azhar remains adamant about quitting PTI even after Omar Ayub rejects resignation

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Hammad Azhar yesterday resigned from his party position—president of PTI’s Punjab chapter—due to “lack of access” to Imran Khan. The party’s Secretary General, Omar Ayub, rejected Azhar’s resignation.

“Hammad Azhar, you have worked tirelessly for the party and PM (sic) Imran Khan, sahib. Resignation not accepted,” Ayub wrote on X.

However, Hammad remained adamant in his initial decision, quoting Ayub’s tweet, writing, “I am humbled by your confidence in me. But it is my firm decision not to continue under circumstances where I have zero authority but complete responsibility.”

Hammad yesterday expressed his grievances, including not being consulted in decisions taken within PTI’s Punjab organisation. He said, “most of these decisions were based on lobbying” instead of merit.

He recalled Chaudhry Asghar’s removal as PTI’s Lahore president as an example of “lobbying”, saying that the lobbyists succeeded by giving Khan the “wrong facts.”