Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has urged the Election Commission of Pakistan to ensure impartiality in the election and remove all the banner and billboards installed by candidates on different prominent spots on main roads within 48 hours otherwise the PPP workers themselves will remove the boards.
Speaking at a press conference at Peshawar Press Club on Saturday, former provincial president Syed Zahir Ali Shah said that all the candidates were bound to follow the code of conduct announced by the ECP and those found violating the rules should be disqualified.
On the occasion, Irfanullah Shah of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf announced joining the PPP. The new entrant will contest election from NA-31, Peshawar on PPP ticket. On the occasion, PK-76(Peshawar-XI) candidate, Ziaullah Afridi and PK-77 (Peshawar-XII) candidate, Zulfiqar Afghani were also present.
Zahir Ali Shah came very hard on PTI leadership for awarding tickets to the turncoats, saying that Imran Khan had always claimed to select honest people but took another U-turn by nominating the corrupt people as candidates for the national and provincial assemblies. Referring to the role of PTI's provincial government, he said it ruined the historical city of Peshawar on the pretext of "change" and now everyone was cursing the party and its leadership. Most of the PTI leaders, former minister, he alleged were involved in corruption and the stories would open gradually if the national accountability bureau took the initiative of inquiries against them.
He also dispelled the impression of any possible election alliance with Awami National Party, saying that the previous experience in coalition partnership with ANP was very harsh and the blunder would not be repeated.
Earlier, Zulfiqar Afghani said Asif Ali Zardari had accepted every demand of both the ANP Chief Asfandyar Wali and Jamiat Ulema Islam-F chief Maulana Fazal-Ur-Rehman during the previous PPP government but they did not proved to be liar otherwise they would have never fielded their party people as candidates against Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on NA-8, Malakand constituency.
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