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PTI leadership ‘turns on itself’ after protest debacle

Dawn22 October 2026, 02:34 UTCPakistan

Salman Akram Raja • Raja ‘rebukes’ move by KP lawmakers to nominate Gandapur as interim KP president• Ex-CM fires back, demands apology from secy gen over ‘name-calling’ PESHAWAR: The debacle that befell the PTI’s recent protest march has led to serious fissures within the core committee, with demands emerging from within for changes at the leadership level that can steer the party out of its current crisis. The bad blood became public on Wednesday as two senior party leaders — Secretary General Salman Akram Raja and former KP chief minister Ali Amin Gandapur — traded accusations of betr

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