LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s candidate for Senate seat from Punjab Chaudhry Sarwar on Wednesday called on Jamaat-i-Islami emir Sirajul Haq and sought his support in the Senate elections scheduled for March 3.

The PTI delegation comprising Chaudhry Sarwar, MPAs Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed and Sibtain Khan met the JI emir and party’s parliamentary secretary Dr Waseem Akhtar and discussed the upcoming Senate elections particularly on a point that opposition parties must get its share in the Senate to be heard.

Later speaking to the media, Mr Sarwar said he had a constitutional and democratic right to ask for vote from all parties’ MPAs and he would be contacting every MPA in the Punjab Assembly. He said the situation would soon be clear adding he was confident to win the election.

COMMITTTEE: A PTI-PML-Q eight-member committee met here on Wednesday and discussed a strategy to secure their candidates win.

Besides PTI’s Chaudhry Sarwar, PML-Q’s Kamil Ali Agha is also a candidate for Senate seat.

The eight-member committee comprises – PTI’s Shafqat Mahmood, Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed, Abdul Aleem Khan and Sibtain Khan while the PML-Q is represented by Tariq Bashir Cheema, Dr Azeemuddin Zahid Lakhvi, Chaudhry Zaheeruddin and Raja Basharat.

With no major outcome of the meeting, the committee decided to continue consultations.

PROTEST: Residents of Union Council 50 in NA-120 staged a protest demonstration on Wednesday against the suspension of water supply for the past many days.

Speaking to the protesters, PTI’s Dr Yasmin Rashid alleged Wasa and the district government were taking a revenge from the constituency residents for casting votes to the PTI.

She said Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif were making tall claims of transforming Lahore into Paris but remained unable to even provide safe drinking water to the residents of their own constituency.

Condemning the people at the helm of affairs, she demanded the water supply should immediately be restored. She also organised a free medical camp at party’s central office in Sanatnagar.

Published in Dawn, February 8th, 2018