A decision on whether to delete the controversial social media post from former prime minister Imran Khan’s X account would be made after input from the PTI’s legal committee, party spokesperson Rauf Hasan has said.
“As per my information, he [Khan Sb] has not seen the final product [of the social media post],” he said in an interview with Sawal Yeh Hai aired on ARY News on Sunday.
He was asked about the thought process behind such a post. Hasan said that there was a “dominant feeling” in the party that the PTI did not get justice and there was not any hope for that.
According to Hasan, social media has been the strongest avenue for the party. He added that people who want to meet the PTI founder are not allowed to take a pen or paper.
“Just because I don’t control social media, I have known that he [Khan] had asked to promote the Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report so that the people know and they get aware of the mistakes made in the past so that we learn to not repeat such mistakes again,” he said and added that those who made the post made their interpretation of the message.
When asked if Khan had approved the video with the caption uploaded on X, Hasan said he would meet him on Thursday. He added that the core committee has owned up to that.
“There were two views in the core committee,” he said and added that the dominant one was that the party should not do that. “The objectionable portion has been forwarded to the legal committee and their input will come on whether to delete the controversial social media post.
“My personal opinion was to delete it as soon as possible.”
In response to a query about whether social media was dominant in the party, he did not give an explicit answer and described it as an “important foundation” in PTI.
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“It has been positive in PTI stature,” Hasan said.
He admitted that there had been times when the party leaders forgot what Khan told them. “Then we six men gather and discuss what he said. In spite of that, there is always a possibility of miscommunication. We have many times asked court and jail to allow us to take pen and paper.”
When asked how journalist Mehdi Hasan’s interview with Khan was conducted, he described that it was all memorisation.
