PTI announces boycott of Senate polls in Sindh

KARACHI: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has announced to boycott the Senate elections in Sindh.

Addressing a press conference in Karachi on Sunday, PTI Sindh President Haleem Adil Sheikh said that they would not contest elections where members with stolen mandates are sitting in assemblies. He added that the entire system in the country, including the prime minister and president, was being held by fake representatives of the public.

Adil said that in the by-elections in Sindh, returning officers rejected the form of PTI candidates against Aseefa Bhutto Zardari. When they were going to the tribunal in appeal against the decision, they were kidnapped.

He added that if Aseefa was like her mother, she would have fought the elections, instead of stealing the mandate.

Sheikh said that the Senate election was being won through theft and there are no members with Form 45 in the assembly at the moment. This is why the PTI would not participate in the upper house elections from Sindh.

Sheikh said that they believe in the results generated on February 8 but not those given on February 9. The PTI parliamentary leaders and members of the assemblies do not want to be part of this “dirty” system, therefore, their candidates will abstain from voting in the Senate elections.

He said that on April 28, PTI will set up a people’s court by organising a big rally in Karachi. He questioned whom Faisal Vawda represented actually and who seconded his nomination for the Senate polls.