LONDON: Jemima Goldsmith, ex wife of jailed PTI Chairman, Imran Khan deleted her post from X platform, supporting PTI in today (Feb 8) General Elections.
The post was earlier posted by an unverified X account of PTI ex chairman sons Kasim and Suleman, with a picture, the two holding up the PTI flag.
Jemima retweeted her sons’ post with the caption: “Pakelection 8th February”, but after ten minutes she deleted it from her timeline which means she deleted her social media post on X — formerly Twitter. However, her repost of Kasim Khan’s tweet remains available on her timeline and has been shared by thousands of users. By the time Jemima deleted her post, over 7000 users shared it.
Jemima and Kasim only posted pictures of PTI flags and not the symbol of the iconic “bat” as PTI has lost its case to use it as their electoral symbol. Thousands of PTI candidates are now contesting as independents using various election symbols. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on December 22 revoked PTI’s bat symbol on the technical grounds that the party had not held intra-party elections – as required under the law. This rendered the party ineligible for having a symbol for the 2024 elections.
Earlier, Jemima had called out a fake X account set up last week in her son’s name to support the PTI’s election campaign.
Jemima, who was married to former premier Imran Khan till around two decades ago, asked her followers to report the fake account but it has now been confirmed that Kasim Khan has set up his genuine account.
Jemima had said her sons are not on X or any other social media site but it appears Kasim Khan has joined the social media site recently.
Jemima had previously stated that she needs no politics in her life and avoids discussing and taking part in political matters to stay away from political fights.
The writer of the romantic comedy What’s Love Got To Do With It had said: I need politics out of my life.”
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