Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) chief Sahibzada Hamid Raza has said that escalating criticism in the media by PTI leaders on the party’s decision to join SIC will make Imran Khan “suffer more than anyone”.

In an appearance on Dawn News show Doosra Rukh, Raza said that hitting out at the PTI-SIC alliance in public would benefit the current government more and that he “would not want in any situation to discuss internal affairs in public”.

“The discipline of the party will also be compromised and our attention will also be diverted from Imran Khan’s cases,” he said, adding that he had not yet met the jailed PTI founder as his name had not been cleared by jail authorities for a meeting.