Mar 31, 2015
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‘Ruling party fears defeat in LG election’
INPISLAMABAD – Adviser to chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and senior leader of party, Dr. Waseem Shahzad has said that his party will aggressively resist any attempt to hold local bodies election in federal capital, Islamabad on non-party basis.
Talking to representatives of the PTI belonging to different union councils (UCs) of the capital who met him here at his office on Tuesday, Dr Waseem said that his party hails the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) decision regarding holding of LB elections on party basis. The delegation comprised of the PTI representatives Sajid Malik, Mubbashir Abbasi, Sabtain Satti, Wajahat Bukhari, Raja Babar and others.
He was of the view that ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) fears defeat in LB polls that is why it was insisting non-party basis elections in Islamabad. The adviser to chairman PTI said that holding LB polls on non-party basis is violation of the basic human rights enshrined in the Article 17(2) of the Constitution of Pakistan which should at least not be allowed at any cost.
He said that youth belonging to the PTI and supporters of the party through their acts and deeds will prove that the PTI is stronghold and major political force of the capital and it will not let anybody to violate their rights. He said that the PTI is not only serving the masses in Khyber Pakhtuhkhwa (KP) the province led by party or the people constituencies where its representatives were in power but instead it raise voice for the basic rights of countrymen where they are in trouble irrespective of their political affiliation, area or any other consideration.
He said that one of the major reason of emergence of the PTI as a leading political force in Pakistan was support of youth which comprising a major population of Pakistan and commitment of the party to resolve the problems faced by people and country. He vowed that the PTI while continued its political role to resolve the internal issues and international issues confronting the national sovereignty and stability of the country due to which masses also have to suffer.
The PTI representatives hailing from different UCs of the federal capital expressed their complete confidence in party’s leadership and assured the party leader of complete support in upcoming LB electiosn and to spare no efforts in this regard.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk