Islamabad (November 17, 2017): Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) lawmaker Dawar Khan Kundi — who recently accused Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Rveneue minitser Ali Amin Gandapur of supporting men accused of stripping and parading a teenage girl naked in Dera Ismail Khan earlier this month — faces an uncertain future as party has issues show cause notice.
The PTI spokesperson Iftikhar Durrani told that the show cause notice to Dawar was issued by general secretary Jahngir Tareen.
PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Friday announced that he would expel Kundi for falsely accusing Gandapur, but the party’s central information secretary, Shafqat Mahmood, hastily issued a clarification soon after stating that a different path would be taken in dealing with the matter.
However, PTI Central Information Secretary Shafqat Mahmood in a subsequent statement said that Kundi had not been expelled from the party as yet.
“Kundi is being served with a show-cause notice as complaints of grave violations of party discipline were received against him,” he said.
“The PTI has a mechanism for inclusion and exclusion from the party,” he added.
“Action will be taken as per the rules and regulation of the party if allegations against Kundi are proved,” he said.
“A grave violation of party discipline could also result in expulsion,” he added.
Kundi had earlier written to Khan requesting him to ensure Gandapur’s removal from his ministerial position, pressure him into withdrawing his support for the suspects and ask the girl’s family for forgiveness.
In the letter, Kundi described Gandapur as “a source of embarrassment for the party”, and alleged that Gandapur provided “support for the criminals in the case in which an orphan girl was paraded naked by eight armed men” in DI Khan.
“I visited the family a week before and they asked — in fact, requested — me to make sure that Ali Amin Gandapur, revenue minister KP, is forced to withdraw his support for the criminals,” Kundi said in his letter.
Responding to the allegations leveled against him by Kundi, Gandapur had said the attempts to link him with the incident were “shameful”.
On November 1, a sister paid the price for her brother’s ‘crimes’ after men forcefully stripped her and paraded her around the streets of Dera Ismail Khan’s Matt area.
The incident occurred on October 27. The 16-year-old girl was returning home after fetching water when men surrounded her, stripped her and forcefully made her walk in the locality for an hour.
The girl’s screams for help fell on deaf ears as no one came to her rescue. The witnesses’ claimed that nobody came to help her because they were scared.
The incident’s survivor was ‘punished’ for her brother’s behaviour. Around three-years-ago, her brother, identified as Sajjad, got involved in a relationship with a girl from the village.
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