{"id":73513,"date":"2026-09-09T15:41:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/73513"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:41:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:41:52","slug":"pml-f-distances-itself-from-incident-says-ali-gohar-shah-joined-ppp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/73513","title":{"rendered":"PML-F distances itself from incident, says Ali Gohar Shah joined PPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>KARACHI: Muslim League Functional has distanced itself from the incident involving Professor Dr Arif Khan Saqi, ARY News reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson said the unfortunate incident should not be linked with the GDA or Pakistan Muslim League Functional (PML-F).<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said Ali Gohar Shah had joined the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on October 19, 2023, after meeting Bilawal Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Karachi University Professor Assaulted | PML-F Announces Disassociation\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RINXSKhOeRo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson added that reports about Ali Gohar Shah joining the PPP were also published in newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the spokesperson, ties with Ali Gohar Shah were no longer maintained due to his failure to uphold the tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the main accused in the case registered over the assault on Professor Arif Khan near a private hotel close to Safoora Chowrangi has not yet been arrested.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"232\" data-end=\"395\">According to police officials, teams have been formed to arrest the accused, Kunain Ali, and are conducting raids in different areas of Gulshan-e-Iqbal and Sachal.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Karachi University Professor Assaulted | Main Suspect Still at Large\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IYkMHRwp3H4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"397\" data-end=\"527\">Police said Kunain Ali\u2019s security guards and employees of the private hotel have so far been arrested in connection with the case.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"529\" data-end=\"632\">Police officials also said they had not been informed whether Kunain Ali had obtained bail in the case.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"634\" data-end=\"725\">Investigating police said Kunain Ali is the son of Ghar Ali, a leader of a political party.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"727\" data-end=\"839\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Police said efforts to arrest the main accused are continuing, but no significant progress has been made so far.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/arif-khan-saqi-case-pml-f-distances-itself-from-incident-says-ali-gohar-shah-joined-ppp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Muslim League Functional has distanced itself from the incident involving Professor Dr Arif Khan Saqi, ARY News reported. A spokesperson said the unfortunate incident should not be linked with the GDA or Pakistan Muslim League Functional (PML-F). The spokesperson said Ali Gohar Shah had joined the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on October 19, 2023, after meeting Bilawal Bhutto and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/PMLF-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":4884,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":4884,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73515,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73513\/revisions\/73515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}