Big offers being made to buy MNAs: Asad Qaiser

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) senior leader and NA ex-speaker Asad Qaiser Sunday claimed that big offers were being made to buy (loyalties of) MNAs.

“Currently, the game of fire and blood is being played in the country and they are cracking down on a political party and making big offers to buy MNAs,” he made this claim in a video message, shared with the media.

He went on to say that people are being pressured to change their allegiance, as they (rulers) have no shame and have to cling to power at all costs.

“My fellow Pakistanis, we have announced a protest in the whole of Pakistan on next Friday under Tehreek Tahaffuz Aiyeen-e-Pakistan. Our protest has three aims and objectives. Our protest is against the deteriorating law and order situation in the country and the failure of the government,” he explained.

The former speaker NA continued that secondly their protest is against the illegal abduction and disappearance of Imran Khan, Bushra Bibi and ‘our other prisoners in jails and the illegal abduction and disappearance of our social workers and especially those related to social media’.

“Thirdly, our protest is against the inflation which they have brought doomsday on the poor people through the budget. Electricity bills have been increased, petrol prices have been increased, taxes have been imposed which are unaffordable. The people will hold a historic protest on Friday,” he maintained. All the political parties especially the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA), he pointed out, will be invited to participate in the protest.

He said, “All sections be it farmers, students, traders or workers we all have to save this country”.

The decision to hold the protests on July 26 (Friday) was taken during an emergency meeting of the Tehreek under its Chairman senior politician from Balochistan Mehmood Khan Achakzai, who also heads Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party.