Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has refuted Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif’s allegations about alleged nexus between the interim Punjab government and PTI, says party statement on Friday.
PTI has said Sharifs were indeed the inventor of the practice of managing elections with the help of caretaker governments.
“It’s height of idiocy on behalf of former Punjab chief minister to malign neutral interim setup in the province. But such tactics cannot change election results in Punjab which is now writing on the wall,” said senior PTI leader Abdul Aleem Khan.
He said PML-N was perturbed over day to day increasing popularity of PTI supremo Imran Khan in Punjab and knowing the fact they [PML-N] were trying to make the elections controversial.
Aleem said PTI had no culture of dictating state institutions to get some political mileage. However, PML-N’s political history was marred with such instances.
Speaking at a public gathering in Mingora, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, former Punjab CM had alleged that interim set-up in Punjab was acting as a pawn in the hands of Imran Khan and his party.
Criticising the caretakers, Shehbaz had even accused some cabinet members of having close association with the PTI.
He had also said that interim government deliberately and at the behest of PTI was creating hurdles in the election campaign of PML-N across the province.