PTI turns against poet Ahmad Farhad for calling leadership ‘cowards’

Poet Ahmad Farhad faced backlash from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders and supporters after he criticised party heads for their absence during the Islamabad protests.

Farhad has previously been vocal in favour of PTI and has written poetry for the party.

Vehemently criticisingly PTI leadership on Sunday in an interview with journalist Ikram Raja, Farhad said, “PTI leadership are cowards, compromised. Not a single leader is present at D Chowk.”

He said that protestors reached Islamabad D Chowk despite facing rubber bullets, baton charges, and tear gas shells, but PTI leadership disappointed them, adding, “lanat hu lanat hu lanat hu PTI leadership par.”

Farhad’s statements led to PTI workers fiercely opposing him.

He took to X (formerly Twitter) and wrote that PTI leadership remained out of sight during protests but advised their followers to approach D Chowk; he added that PTI was an establishment puppet during their reign and now they are missing democracy and claiming their protests are revolutions.

During a Twitter space hosted by Salman Khan, Salman Ahmad misbehaved with poet Ahmad Farhad.

Farhad questioned the Chief Minister (CM) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) sudden disappearance from the Islamabad protests; Salman furiously answered, “Farhad is a puppet of the establishment,” and asked the poet to leave the space.

Ahmad Farhad replied, “Salman Ahmad, you are an illiterate man.”

Farhad wrote on X (formerly Twitter) “In Twitter space, it was not Salman Ahmad, the singer of the Junoon band, who misbehaved me but someone else who was out of his mind; please correct.”