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We won’t allow money-making in Senate polls: Imran

Says he will go to the extent of dissolving KP Assembly; refuses to disclose name of person who offered Rs150m for Senate ticket

By our correspondents
March 04, 2015
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has said that he would not divulge the name of the man who made an offer of Rs150 million for a Senate ticket as he was a fine person.
He said that he would not allow the use of money in the Senate elections even if he had to dissolve the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly to purge his party from this menace. He said that he had asked Asif Ali Zardari not to make bids for his people, adding that the former president telephoned KP Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak before he called him. He expressed these views during aninterview with a private news channel on Tuesday.
The PTI chairman said that Zardari was seeking support for two candidates but latter his demand increased to three and he (Zardari) fielded his two candidates on five MPs seats. Imran said that he would quit politics if ‘darbari’ Pervaiz Rashid proved receiving of money.
He said that he would send sellers of conscience to the jail by kicking them out from his party. He said that he would take to streets if he did not get justice.Imran alleged that PML-N had cast seven million fake votes in the general elections. He said the PML-N and PPP were the parties of status quo and their objectives were the same. He predicted a big game before August.
The PTI chairman said Pervaiz Khattak informed on phone that the PPP was trying to purchase MPs in the KP Assembly and he phoned Asif Zardari and asked him not to make bids for the MPs.
Imran Khan said that there was a difference between the MQM and Altaf Hussain. He said that the MQM chief Altaf Hussain was playing havoc in Karachi while sitting in London. He alleged that the PTI leader Zahra Shahid was murdered by the MQM people.The PTI chairman said elections should be held in Karachi under the supervision of the Army.