ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senators lambasted the Caretaker Chief Minister Punjab Hasan Askari Rizvi in the Upper House on Saturday, over his alleged statement favoring Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in terms of more seats in general elections 2018.
While speaking in the Senator Session, the PML-N leader Senator Pervaiz Rasheed said who had given the authority to the Chief Minister Punjab to deliver the statements regarding less or more seats in the election?
“If this is right, Senate should ask him to resign,” he said.
Pervaiz Rasheed said terrorists were being made parliamentarians while parliamentarians were being made terrorists.
The PML-N Senator said National Accountability Bureau (NAB) served the notice to the PML-N Candidate in NA-54 Islamabad-III Anjum Aqeel Khan just four days before the elections. He said the Chief Elections Commissioner (CEC) Justice (retd) Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan and the Chairman NAB Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal must be summoned and questioned over the issue.
Senator Sadia Abbasi said an Indian Newspaper had published a statement of Hassan Askari in which he had stated that PTI would receive more seats while PML-N would get less seats in upcoming elections.
Sadia Abbasi said Hasan Askari was the Caretaker Chief Minister of Punjab, and those statements clearly showed his agenda. She said the CEC must take the notice on his statement.
Meanwhile, over the demand of PML-N Senators to send Hasan Askari’s statement published in the Indian newspaper to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), the Chairman Senate Sadiq Sanjrani directed to hand over the published news to the Secretariat.
