{"id":318110,"date":"2023-03-08T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=318110"},"modified":"2023-03-08T00:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T19:00:02","slug":"parvez-elahi-appointed-pti-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/parvez-elahi-appointed-pti-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Parvez Elahi appointed PTI president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Islamabad<br \/>\nThe Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Tuesday appointed Chaudhry Parvez Elahi as the party president weeks after he was roped in with the promise of the same post.<br \/>\n\u201cCh Pervez Illahi is hereby, designated as President [of the] Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf,\u201d a notification available with Geo News and signed by PTI Chairman Imran Khan read.<br \/>\nIn response to the appointment, Elahi thanked the PTI chief and said that \u201cno one has respected me like Imran Khan, and we all have to work together to strengthen him\u201d.<br \/>\nIn a major development late last month, the former Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader announced joining the Imran Khan-led party along with 10 of his party\u2019s former MPAs.<br \/>\nKhan and Elahi enjoy close ties as the former Punjab chief minister vowed to stand by the ex-prime minister and ensured they remained in power in Punjab \u2014 the major hub of the country\u2019s politics.<br \/>\nThe development comes as Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa head towards polls. The elections in the former will take place on April 30, while the date for the latter has not yet been decided.<br \/>\n\u201cAfter lengthy discussions, Parvez Elahi and other leaders have finally decided to join PTI today,\u201d PTI Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry said on February 21 during a press conference alongside Elahi in Lahore after the ex-Punjab CM\u2019s meeting with Khan.<br \/>\nOn the directions of the PTI chief, Elahi had dissolved the Punjab Assembly in January and subsequently lost his post as the province\u2019s chief minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have supported Imran Khan during difficult times and proved my loyalty through chief ministership,\u201d Elahi had said during the same presser.<\/p>\n<p>While Fawad and Elahi were announcing his merger with the party, PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat sacked the ex-Punjab CM from the party and said that he \u201cis banned from using PML-Q\u2019s name in the future\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Tuesday appointed Chaudhry Parvez Elahi as the party president weeks after he was roped in with the promise of the same post. \u201cCh Pervez Illahi is hereby, designated as President [of the] Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf,\u201d a notification available with Geo News and signed by PTI Chairman Imran Khan read. In response [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-318110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Parvez Elahi appointed PTI president<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/parvez-elahi-appointed-pti-president\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Parvez Elahi appointed PTI president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Tuesday appointed Chaudhry Parvez Elahi as the party president weeks after he was roped in with the promise of the same post. \u201cCh Pervez Illahi is hereby, designated as President [of the] Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf,\u201d a notification available with Geo News and signed by PTI Chairman Imran Khan read. 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