PTI accuses PPP of sabotaging its public gathering

Author: By Our Correspondent

UMERKOT: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmaker Lalchand Malhi alleged that PTI workers were being pressurised by Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) MPAs to cancel the party’s public meeting.

PTI Umerkot and Pakistan People’s Party announced their public gatherings on October 20 and October 21 respectively. Shah Mehmood Qureshi of PTI and Nisar Ahmed Khuhro of PPP would also join Diwali festivities in the city, it was reported. Malhi said party workers who had planned to host Shah Mehmood Qureshi during his Umerkot visit were being bullied by PPP workers through different tactics.

Followers of Ghousia Jamaat and PTI workers had been threatened for consequences, which the party would not tolerate, he said. He said the women of Bheel community were kidnapped with the backing of PPP. On the other hand, PPP Umerkot Spokesperson Burhan Kumbhar rejected the allegations in a press release and said in the backdrop of Diwali festival, PTI’s show would not get people’s attention; therefore PTI was accusing PPP of sabotaging their public gathering. He said the Bheel community belonged to PPP and MPA Ali Mardan Shah had been striving hard to recover the kidnapped women.

Published in Daily Times, October 16th 2017.

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