Former federal ministers and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders Murad Saeed and Shehryar Khan Afridi, who reached Karachi to garner support for the party candidates during the local bodies (LB) polls, on Wednesday accused Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Asif Ali Zardari of purchasing votes of some provincial lawmakers in Punjab.
Talking to the media, they said that Zardari had reached Lahore where he was busy changing the loyalties of PTI and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) MPAs ahead of the election for the slot of the Punjab chief minister, scheduled for tomorrow (July 22).
“The persons like Asif Ali Zardari, who has been notorious for purchasing the votes to topple the government in past is very much active in Lahore,” they added, and demanded stern action against such brokers.
The PTI leaders said that Imran Khan was man of principles and never ever tried to indulge in such cheap actives and always stood for principles when his government was in peril few months back.
They said such people, who according to them, were “black stigma” on the face of the democratic dispensation in the country should be sent behind bars. They hoped that despite the dirty tricks by Zardari, and the leaders of PML-N they would easily make Chaudhry Parvez Elahi as the new chief minister of Punjab as per directions of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
They lashed out at the officials Elections Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for their bias against the PTI leadership and warned them to mend their ways since people of the country could not afford such persons at the key positions. They hoped that people of Karachi, Hyderabad and other districts of Sindh would reject other parties would vote for the candidates of PTI in the scheduled LB polls.
