Ayesha Gulalai and PTI workers

PTI worker women press conference against Ayesha Gulalai

PESHAWAR: A worker of the PTI has approached a police station in Peshawar with the request to register an FIR against MNA Ayesha Gulalai for defaming the party and its chairman, Imran Khan.

Gulalai on August 1 quit the PTI after accusing Imran and his ‘gang’ of immoral behaviour against women. Gulalai had claimed that the PTI chief had been sending her obscene messages since 2013, a charge vehemently refuted by the PTI.

On Friday, Muhammad Amir Khan – chairman of the PTI’s Youth Revival Committee PTI – submitted an application to the SHO of Peshawar’s Hayatabad police station, requesting him to lodge an FIR against Gulalai.

Requesting to invoke Section 499/500 of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), the application said Gulalai put him under immense mental agony as she “lied through electronic and print media by making false allegations against my party chairman Mr Imran Khan and my party PTI.”

When contacted, the SHO Hayatabad said they had received the application but it could not be entertained because it had no legal grounds. “[The PTI worker] has submitted an application but the crime has not been taken place in my area so he should instead go to the court and file a writ petition,” he said. “No FIR can be filed on the grounds provided in his application.”

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Friday passed a motion to constitute an inquiry committee of the House to hold in-camera probe into the allegations of Ayesha Gulalai against her party Chairman Imran Khan on sending indecent messages to her.

The parliamentarians from PML-N, PPP and other parties supported the move while the PTI members first rejected it but later their leader welcomed the motion.In an interview, PTI chief Imran Khan welcomed the formation of a parliamentary committee to probe Gulalai’s allegations as announced by the prime minister. He said half of the country had been submerged in floodwater while the prime minister accorded importance to Gulalai’s allegations. He said that Gulalai was in contact with the KP governor and Amir Muqam as the PML-N and other political parties wanted point-scoring on the issue. He hoped that forensic audit of the allegations would be conducted by experts. He said that forensic audit of the mobile phones of the KP governor, Amir Muqam and Gulalai should also be carried out. He said that all the cases against him and his party had failed. He said that the war against corruption would continue and his determination to expose the corrupt people would continue despite all odds.
The inquiry committee was constituted on suggestion from Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi who wanted the issue to be resolved through investigations to be conducted by an inquiry committee through in-camera proceedings.