The PPP has urged the ECP to take action against police officers who stopped party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and his cavalcade from visiting the shrine of Hazrat Jalaluddin Bukhari in Uch Sharif on Saturday.

PPP has filed a written complaint, which says that Mr Bhutto-Zardari’s cavalcade was proceeding to the shrine, but police blocked the road and did not allow him to visit the shrine.

Sherry Rehman, wrote a similar letter to the ECP, which said: “As you know, any such action at any time, but especially at a point during the run-up to a general election, amounted to violation of the rules and code of conduct under which a free, fair and transparent election was to be held. It brings the purported neutrality of the provincial caretaker government, in this case the Punjab government, into clear doubt,” the letter said.

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