TAXILA: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) launched its election drive by organising a public gathering in the city on Sunday.

The public gathering was organised by former candidate for provincial assembly Syed Riaz Hussain Shah who is now supporting and lobbying for the PTI candidates in the constituency of Ghulam Sarwar Khan and his nephew Ammar Sadeeq Khan.

The PTI has also succeeded to win the support of Seth Farrukh Mehmood Mughal, a business figure of the city and a close aide to former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.

Besides, another key political personality, Syed Zaheer Shah Zaildar, who had supported the PPP in the previous elections, is also backing the PTI candidates.

PTI Vice President Ghulam Sarwar Khan started his formal electioneering and claimed that more important political and social personalities would join the party soon.

Addressing the public gathering, he ruled out any seat adjustment with any party or his archrival Chaudhry Nisar and vowed to not open the field open for any candidate in both the constituencies of NA 59 and NA 63.

He said that like the 2013 elections he would again defeat Mr Nisar.

Published in Dawn, June 25th, 2018