PTI forward block leader denies external pressure in Karachi mayor election

Asad Aman, the chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) ahead block stated on Saturday that the 32 PTI members who avoided voting within the Karachi Municipal Company (KMC) mayor election did so with none exterior strain. 

Throughout an interview with Geo Information, he stated that he would clarify the explanations for not voting in favour of the Jamat-e-Islami candidate Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman in response to the show-cause discover issued to him by the occasion.

Moreover, Asad stated that they’d play the function of an Opposition towards the Pakistan Peoples Get together (PPP) with full drive, whereas sitting on the opposition benches.

He additionally made it clear that they’re accountable to the occasion, to not Hafiz Naeem.

It’s noteworthy that 32 UC chairmen from PTI had been absent in the course of the voting for Karachi’s mayoral elections on June fifteenth. The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) candidate had accused the PPP of kidnapping them to be able to manipulate the election in favour of Murtaza Wahab. 

Nevertheless, the PPP countered the declare by asserting that the PTI members abstained from voting for Hafiz Naeem resulting from their very own reservations, with none exterior affect.

Finally, Murtaza Wahab of the PPP secured the place of Karachi’s Mayor with 173 votes, whereas Hafiz Naeem of the JI adopted him with 160 votes.