OKARA: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf vice chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi says JI chief Sirajul Haq has become senator through the votes of the PTI but he (Mr Haq) in turn voted for Nawaz Sharif’s candidates.

Speaking to a gathering here on Monday night, he said a new Pakistan was just around the corner as the PTI is expected to win election with a heavy mandate. The PML-N and PPP governments had failed to solve the problems of the country, he said.

The event was organised by PTI leader Syed Samsam Ali Bokhari in connection with the mobilisation of the PTI activists for the April 29 gathering in Lahore under the slogan of ‘Tajdeed-i-Ahed’.

He said people were fed up with the PPP and the PML-N governments. He said the rupee had been devalued and the PML-N government had taken unprecedented loans in the last five years. He said growers were facing a crunch time and 21pc people in north Punjab and 51pc in south Punjab were living below the poverty line.

Earlier, Samsam Bokhari welcomed PTI leader and union councils chairmen including Raza Haider Kirmani, Chaudhry Anwar, Chaudhry Naeem Gujjar, Pir Noorullah Bodla, Renala MC vice chairman Ashraf Chishti, former Deepalpur tehsil nazim Syed Maratib Ali Kirmani, Punjab Bar Council member Ali Riaz Kirmani and senior journalist Munir Chaudhry joined the PTI.

Asked why Jahangir Tareen was a member of PTI’s parliamentary committee even after disqualification, Mr Qureshi said Imran Khan could better reply to this question.

Published in Dawn, April 25th, 2018