DEFENCE Minister Khawaja Asif on Monday accused Ali Amin Gandapur of `playing a double game`, claiming that his party had also reached a similar conclusion.

Speaking to Geo News, the PML-N stalwart said that groups of PTI supporters who had managed to reach D-Chowk during the protest had lost heart after it emerged that KP CM Gandapur had vanished from the scene.

`Neither their central leadership, nor their Punjab leadership; no secretary, no chairman it was just a number of workers` who took part in the party`s Islamabad protest, the minister said. He also alleged that most of these people consisted of KP policemen in civilian garb.

Mr Asif claimed that in contrast to the KP CM`s claim, he had actually spent Sunday night at Omar Ayub`s residence in Haripur,whichhe claimed could be accessed via a road through the Margalla Hills, which leads to Daman-i-Koh.

`Their workers, who were abusing us on social media until yesterday, are now cursing the PTI leadership,` he said, adding that after this disappointment, it would become very difficult for the party to mobilise their support base again.

On Mr Gandapur`s `utility` to party founder Imran Khan, Mr Asif claimed that Mr Khan would never penalise the KP CM as the latter was the messenger between the PTI and the establishment.-Monitoring Desk