PTI leader and former minister Farrukh Habib, whose whereabouts had been unknown after his arrest from Gwadar last month, resurfaced in a press conference on Monday evening, where he announced parting ways with Imran Khan’s party.
Breaking his silence, Habib said: “For around three weeks, I disconnected my contact with my family for some reason. We have all been away from our homes since the unfortunate incident of May 9.”
The ex-PTI loyalist was flanked by leaders of the Istehkam-i-Pakistan Party during the press conference.
The IPP, which Habib said he has joined, is the newly formed Jahangir Khan Tarin-led political camp most PTI deserters have entered.
Since the May 9 riots, which broke out soon after Imran’s arrest in Islamabad, over a hundred prominent leaders were picked up and many of them later held press conferences to announce their decision to quit the PTI.