Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) chief and Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) head Maulana Fazlur Rehman has left Pakistan for London, say party sources.
Other sources, however, say he will reach Thailand for treatment as advised by doctors.
Party sources further said that Fazl was set to meet Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif in London to discuss the current political situation in Pakistan. The JUI-F leader will stay in Britain for a few days and meet his party workers operating in different cities, sources added.
PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s arrest in the £190 million settlement case on May 9 and subsequent violent protests, during which unruly supporters and workers stormed and torched state installations almost across the country, have unleashed a mass exodus of leaders from the party.
Several PTI leaders including close aides of Khan have announced quitting the party over May 9 vandalism with some blaming Khan’s policies for the attacks on the military installations.
The latest person to jump ship is party’s Sindh President Ali Zaidi, who announced on Saturday that he is quitting politics and resigned from party positions.
Nearly three-day-long protests also claimed at least 8 lives and injured dozens of others with the incumbent coalition government suspending internet services and deploying army troops to maintain law and order situation.
