LAHORE – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s former member and senior retired justice of Supreme Court (SC) Justice (r) Wajihuddin Ahmed warned of legal proceedings against those who were misusing his name on social media.
The Retired justice, who parted ways with PTI on the issue of intra-party elections, expressed his anger on Twitter when an unknown social media user impersonated as him and made political comments.
https://twitter.com/Justice_R_Wajih/status/1025878236692180992
Justice Wajih, who was blocked by the impersonator, also asked the social media users to suggest him what to do in these circumstances.
The legal veteran has been active in national politics ever since 2011, when he joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
On 30 July 2013, he was the sole opponent of Mamnoon Hussain in the presidential polls. Ahmed received 77 votes and Hussain got 432 votes.
Justice (r) Wajihuddin Ahmed resigned from the basic membership of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in September 2016 owing to the differences with the party chairman Imran Khan over the intra-party election process.
He had served as the party’s election tribunal head. He was tasked to head a commission in 2013 to investigate “irregularities” in PTI’s intra-party elections that took place before the general election in the same year.
https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/pakistan/justice-r-wajihuddin-ahmed-formally-quits-pti/
He developed differences with party leadership over the implementation of recommendations made by the tribunal.
Imran Khan suspended Wajihuddin Ahmad’s basic party membership for discussing party matters publicly, after which he presented a seven-point charter calling for the ouster of Jahangir Tareen, Pervaiz Khattak, Aleem Khan and Nadir Leghari from the PTI.
Wajihuddin alleged that the party was being run like a ‘mafia’ without any institutional checks and balances.
He was also unhappy with the resignation of Tasneem Noorani as PTI Chief Election Commissioner (CEC).
