Islamabad
\nTaking a jibe at Barrister Gohar\u2019s election as Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf\u2019s (PTI) chairman, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader Khawaja Asif Sunday censured Imran Khan for handpicking Asif Ali Zardari\u2019s \u201cprot\u00e9g\u00e9\u201d as party\u2019s new chairman.
\nThe former defence minister was referring to Gohar replacing Imran Khan as the party chief following the inta-party election on Saturday which were held after the ECP issued a 20-day deadline warning party to hold polls or lose its \u201cbat\u201d symbol.
\nBarrister Gohar\u2019s nomination as party chair became a controversial subject within the PTI when his name was revealed by the party\u2019s Senor-Vice President Sher Afzal Marwat earlier this week saying that he would be the party\u2019s candidate for chairman after Khan decided to abstain from contesting for the top post owing to legal challenges including his five-year disqualification in the Toshakhana case.
\nTaking a dig at Gohar \u2014 a former member of the Pakistan People\u2019s Party Parliamentarian (PPPP) who contested the 2008 elections on the Zardari-led party\u2019s ticket \u2014 Asif took to social media to lambast Khan for choosing a person to lead his party whose leader was Asif Ali Zardari for 14 years.
\n\u201cImran Khan liked a \u2018diamond carved by Zardari sahib\u2019 so much that he handed over his chair to him,\u201d he wrote on the microblogging platform X.
\nThe PML-N stalwart stressed that the former premier is not willing to trust his colleagues who have been with him for years.
\n\u201cIt is difficult for a person who has deceived people all his life to trust others,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Who is PTI\u2019s new chairman?
\nAccording to the PTI leader\u2019s website, he is an advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and appears in all high courts as well.
\nHe is a law graduate from Wolverhampton University, UK with LLM from Washington School of Law, USA. Gohar has been in active law practice with more than 50 reported judgments to his credit on subjects ranging from taxation, commercial, corporate, arbitration, banking, election, etc.
\nThe PTI leader has civil and criminal trials experience, and even has the honour to appear before the Supreme Judicial Council, Field General Court Martial, and its Court of Appeal.
\nHis clients include public and private companies and important persons, including Imran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Islamabad Taking a jibe at Barrister Gohar\u2019s election as Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf\u2019s (PTI) chairman, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader Khawaja Asif Sunday censured Imran Khan for handpicking Asif Ali Zardari\u2019s \u201cprot\u00e9g\u00e9\u201d as party\u2019s new chairman. The former defence minister was referring to Gohar replacing Imran Khan as the party chief following the inta-party election on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2867],"class_list":{"0":"post-372004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-khawaja-asif"},"yoast_head":"\n