LAHORE : Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) stalwart Hammad Azhar has once again stepped down as the president of the party’s Punjab chapter, citing lack of access to Imran Khan and restrictions on his movements as the reasons behind his decision. The politician, who had also served as a federal minister during the PTI regime, remains in hiding amid fears of arrest as he is booked in several cases related to May 9 mayhem. “Unfortunately I do not have access to Imran Khan. I did not hold a press conference nor did any deal as my movement is very restricted and I cannot go to Adiala [jail],” Azhar wrote on X. The Imran Khan’s loyalist expressed various grievances, one of them was not consulting him in the decisions taken within the PTI’s Punjab organisation, as he said “most of these decisions were based on lobbying” instead of merit. Moreover, he said limited access and provision of one-sided information to the PTI founder also concerned him. Chaudhry Asghar’s removal as PTI’s Lahore president as one example of “lobbying”, saying that the lobbyists wanted to replace Asghar and they succeeded today and got the desired directives from the jailed PTI founder by giving him the “wrong facts”.