Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) additional secretary and former advisor to Prime Minister Malik Amin Aslam announced to quit his party after 13 years of affiliation.
According to the 24News HD TV channel, he was one of the close associates of PTI Chairman Imran Khan during the last regime of his party.
On Thursday, Malik Amin addressed a press conference in Islamabad and announced his disassociation from the party due to attacks on May 9.
Malik Amin said he joined PTI to eliminate but now his party has gone on the wrong path, adding that anti-national agenda is not acceptable.
He said unplanned attacks on sensitive military installations are not possible. He criticized the party leadership for not holding an intra-party investigation on the May 9 tragedy in the last 10 days which was a big failure of them.
He added that during these 10 days, people could be determined under the intra-party system that which people had set fire on the 9th of May. He also criticized that no core committee meeting of the party was even held after May 9 to discuss the issues.
Malik Amin Aslam said there is no pressure on him and the facts are in front of people which people provoked the workers on May 9 while PTI workers are now rotting in prisons and there are no efforts from the party to release them.
He suggested that PTI should first start the investigation from their own home.