Lahore (June 01, 2018): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan said on Friday that the PTI focus is only to hold the transparent and fair elections under neutral umpire.
Imran made these views while addressing a joint press conference in Lahore with recently inducted Zulfiqar Khosa, the former leader of PML-N.
The party has been at crosshairs of media for his continues u-turn over the names of caretaker CM Punajb after withdrawing its nomination of former bureaucrat Nasir Mahmood Khosa as caretaker Punjab chief minister.
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Responding a question over the issue Imran said “Our objective is transparent elections; after we suggest a name that becomes controversial should we turn it into an ego issue that we will continue to stand by the name just because we proposed it,” said Imran.
“It is necessary that the umpires should be neutral.”
He further said that the candidates suggested by PTI were thought to conduct transparent elections.
“We later considered the public reaction to the candidate [too],” he said in an apparent reference to the party’s withdrawal of its nomination of Nasir Khosa.
“It is not imperative that the focus should be on PTI withdrawing a candidate’s name that it had suggested earlier; transparent elections should be the main focus.”
Commenting over the Supreme Court’s verdict announced earlier today that nullified former foreign minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif’s lifetime disqualification by the Islamabad High Court, Imran said his party had accepted the decision.
“We have accepted the verdict on Khawaja Asif’s disqualification,” he said.
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