LAHORE, July 20 (ABC): Punjab Home Minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Attaullah Tarar has rejected the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) allegations of ‘horse-trading’ ahead of Punjab chief minister (CM) election.
Addressing a press conference in Lahore, the provincial minister said that the PML-N has not offered any money to Members of Provincial Assembly (MPAs) ahead of Punjab CM elections. Ata Tarar said that he rejects all the allegations levelled against him by the PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry, challenging the former information minister to testify his claims on oath on the Holy Quran.
Speaking about the PTI leader’s claims about the Rahim Yar Khan MPA, Ata Tarar said that Chaudhry Masood Ahmed had resigned in April and lambasted the opposition party for not being aware of its own members. The Punjab Home Minister further said that the PTI has once again started crying, adding that more resignations could possibly come forward.
“Shah Mehmood Qureshi was also present in the parliamentary party meeting of PML-Q and PTI. Why only 100 members out of 188 participated in the meeting,” the provincial minister added. Tarar levied his own allegations of PML-N MPAs being allegedly bribed by Punjab Assembly Speaker Pervaiz Elahi and his son Moonis Elahi.
“A PML-N lawmaker was approached with a bribe of Rs100m while he was performing Haj,” he alleged, adding that Moonis was “pleading” with the MPAs in Islamabad to switch loyalties while an elderly female PML-N MPA was also approached in Faisalabad.
