PPP not to attend multi-party conference over alleged rigging

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The PPP has decided not to attend a multi-party conference (MPC) called by the MMA and PML-N on Friday to devise a joint strategy over alleged rigging in the 2018 general elections.

Bilawal and Zardari.
Bilawal and Zardari.

PPP spokesman Farhatullah Babar told DawnNewsTV neither party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari nor co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari will join the MPC being held in Islamabad today.

"The PPP leadership will devise its own political strategy [over alleged poll irregularities]," he said.

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