Fawad reveals serious differences within PTI leadership.

Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry has stirred controversy after he revealed in an interview that Jahangir Khan Tareen had played a role in Asad Umar's removal from the Finance Ministry last year.

In an interview with Voice of America (VoA), he said that infighting between Umar, Tareen and Shah Mahmood Qureshi affected the party a lot.

'There was a lot of expectation from PTI and Imran Khan,' Chaudhry said. 'The public had not elected us or the prime minister to fix nuts and bolts but to reform the system.'

'When the Panama case was resolved I and few others had a chance to speak to Imran Khan and at that time I felt his ideas were very clear when it came to reforms,' he added.

'The way he said the chief ministers had become dictators in Sindh and the National Finance Commission [NFC] Award should be there along with police reforms, judicial reforms, it was very clear at that time what Imran Khan's vision was,' he further said.

Chaudhry said that one of the main problems was the infighting between the PTI's senior leadership that included Umar, Tareen and Qureshi. Hence, this led to a political vacuum. 'When the political vacuum was created, it was filled up with new people who were not from politics,' he said. 'When your core team was disturbed it was filled with new people who were frankly not aligned with ideas and won't be and don't have the capacity to either,' he added.

This infighting affected the party a lot especially the political class, he stated.

Responding to a question about whether the prime minister did not get an experienced team or if he was at fault for the way he was governing, Chaudhry said the team was selected by PM Imran.

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