Watch: Imran Khan storms out of presser, his fans & critics fight on Twitter
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday stormed out of a press conference at Peshawar after he was asked by a journalist at his party Pakistan Tehreek-I-Insauf role on social media, the Pakistan Geo TV website reported. This happened a day after the former prime minister and several senior leaders were ordered for burning and vandalism in Islamabad during Azadi March. In a video that became viral on social media and shared by prominent Pakistani journalists from other organizations as well, the prime minister who was overthrown loss of cool when a journalist asked him about the governance of the PTI regime in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and accused that his party workers spread hatred in the media social.
Khan was heard telling the journalist that he wanted to give him a strong answer to his words calling PTI workers as keyboard soldiers.”No one can control what trends on social media. If you run the trend and no one takes it, then it disappears the next day. You accuse us of spreading hatred. We are trying to unite the country. You have delivered a speech at a press conference, “Khan said before leaving a press conference.The 69 -year -old leader movement has triggered a Twitter war between supporters and criticisms. Criket supporters who turned into politicians said that he was ‘patient enough to let journalists finish his hate speech’.
However, PTI’s head critics slammed him from invading a press conference after he faced uncomfortable questions.Imran Khan received criticism from the opposition for the violence released on the streets in Pakistan on Wednesday. PTI supporters clashed with police in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Karachi, Lahore and other parts of the country during the Azadi parade which was called by the former Prime Minister.
Imran Khan and other senior PTI leaders were ordered by the police in two separate burning and vandalism cases. The accusation was associated with a fire incident in various places by PTI supporters in Islamabad on Wednesday night during the ‘Azadi’ General Meeting.
