KARACHI: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) is facing worst time in Sindh ahead of tomorrow’s Senate elections as at least six of its MPs are unlikely to cast votes for the party’s candidates in the elections for the Upper House.
Three MPAs Karim Bux Gabol, Shahryar Khan Shar and Aslam Abro came openly against the party and another PTI leader stated that three more MPAs, including a lawmaker elected on a minority seat, are not in contact with the PTI leadership.
All the MPAs may announce not to vote for the party’s candidates. Besides, three PTI MPAs, including Karim Bux Gabol, Shahryar Khan Shar and Aslam Abro, have announced that they would not cast votes for the PTI candidates in the Senate election.
Alarmed over the developments, the PTI has directed all its MPs to assemble at a local hotel by Tuesday from where they would be taken together to cast vote in the Sindh Assembly to avoid any ‘poaching of its votes’.
Earlier on Monday, three PTI MPAs announced that they would not cast vote along the party lines in the Upper House of the Parliament, amid accusations from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf that the Pakistan People’s Party was pressurising its MPAs to change loyalties in the Senate polls. Immediately afterwards, President PTI Karachi, Khurram Sher Zaman had said that three PTI MPAs had been kidnapped. “Their last location was in Defence,” he said, speaking to media. “These MPAs were in contact with us,” added Zaman.
Meanwhile, a PTI leaders disclosed that three more MPAs, including a lawmaker elected on a minority seat, will also announce not to vote for the party’s candidates. Announcing the new development, in a press conference, PTI’s opposition leader in Sindh Assembly Firdous Shamim Naqvi and PTI Karachi President Khurram Sherzaman alleged that PPP is using pressure tactics through the Sindh Police including registration of baseless cases, against the PTI MPAs to force them to vote for the PPP’s candidates in the province.
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