Former planning minister Asad Umar, who had resigned as the PTI’s secretary general in May following the May 9 riots, on Saturday resigned from the party’s basic membership as well as quit politics.
In a post on X, he wrote, “After more than one decade in public life, I have decided to completely quit politics.
“I am resigning from [the] basic membership of PTI,” Umar, who once was a close aide of PTI chief Imran Khan, stated.
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