Pak journals boycott press conference of Khan’s party after verbal spat with senior leader over corruption issue

Pakani journals on Wednesday boycotted a press conference of embattled Prime Miner Imran Khan’s Pakan Tehreek-e-Insaf party here after a verbal spat broke out between them and a senior PTI leader over a corruption-related question involving a close friend of former first lady Bushra Bibi.
During a press conference with PTI members Asad Umar, Shahbaz Gill and Ali Muhammad Khan, a journal asked former information miner Fawad Chaudhry to comment on reports alleging that Farah Khan, a close friend of Bushra Bibi, was involved in corrupt activities and had recently left the country with her husband, The Express Tribune newspaper reported.
The Opposition alleges that Farah received a huge sum of money for getting officers transferred and posted according to their choices, calling the scam the “mother of all scandals” amounting to 6 billion Pakani rupees (USD 32 million). Maryam Nawaz, the Pakan Muslim League (N) Vice President and deposed premier Nawaz Sharif’s daughter, claimed that Farah has done the corruption at the behest of Imran and his wife.

Infuriated the question, Chaudhry lashed out at the reporter, claiming that he was a “hired phoney” and that he knew where the scribe acquired his “bribe” from. The former miner also began hurling abuses at the reporter.
Enraged at Chaudhry’s actions, all the journals present at the press conference demanded an apology from him, only for him to question why he should apologise and to whom.
Soon after, Chaudhry started his statement but was cut off chants from the journals who refused to len to him, the report said.
Observing the severity of the situation, while the other PTI leaders tried to convince the journals to len to Asad Umar instead, Chaudhry questioned why his colleague should speak instead of him and maintained that he had not told any lies, demanding that he will speak and everyone must len.
Protesting his attitude, the journals dropped their microphones on the dais and said that they would not allow Chaudhry to speak unless he apologised to the reporter who he abused.
The PTI leaders soon ended the press conference and left.
Earlier this week, Farah left for Dubai following the dissolution of the National Assembly in the wake of the no-trust move against Prime Miner Khan.

In addition to Farah, other leaders of PTI have also started to leave for abroad, Express News reported.
According to sources in the PTI, Farah left for Dubai on Sunday, adding that her husband also resides in the Emirati state, the report said.