CHARSADDA: Awami National Party (ANP) leader Asfandyar Wali Khan on Friday said that Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari has shown the nation Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan reality in the recently-held Senate elections.
He said this while addressing party workers in Charsadda.
Taking a swipe at Imran Khan, Asfandyar expressed his sorrow and said that his head hangs in shame over the way Senate elections were held, as the entire ‘stable’ was bought.
The ANP leader commented that Imran Khan habitually puts forward contradicting statements every morning and evening.
“Imran says that Nawaz and Zardari are two sides of the same coin,” he said. “Imran should disclose who his party’s lawmakers voted for in Senate.”
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), PTI, and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) have voiced their doubts over some political parties securing Senate seats without having substantial representation in the provincial assemblies.
Furthermore, Prime Minister (PM) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has alleged that votes for the position of Senate chairman were ‘sold’ and went on to challenge the PTI and PPP leaders to state on record that their MPAs were not bought.
“I challenge Imran and Zardari to appear on television and say that MPAs and votes were not bought,” he said. “Imran has forgotten how he used to lament that Asif Zardari had bought fourteen PTI MNAs. And when the time to elect the chairman Senate came, he voted for Zardari’s candidate,” Abbasi added.
The PM had expressed his pride on the fact that his party’s expenditure during the Senate elections was zero.
