PPP rubbishes Marwat claim Zardari sought to contact him

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Sher Afzal Khan Marwat has claimed that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari kept trying to contact him Tuesday night.

Talking to reporters in Islamabad on Wednesday, Marwat said Asif Zardari tried to contact him around 11pm.

Marwat said the PPP hinted at not objecting to PTI securing its seats through due process of law, and that the PTI, not the PMLN, is their priority for forming the government in the Centre.

He said he, Aleema Khan, Shandana Gulzar and Shehryar Afridi discussed the contacts by the PPP.

Marwat told reporters he would inform PTI founder about the development, said Marwat. However, he said, Imran Khan was against joining hands with those who stole mandate.

Meanwhile, PPP Secretary Information Faisal Karim rejected Marwat’s claim and termed it “childish and frivolous”.

“I don’t consider Sher Afzal Marwat to be a serious person. If the PTI was to be contacted, it would have been contacted through a serious person,” he said. Kundi said the PTI have come to know that their government is not being formed now. “Sometimes they say that they won 150 seats and sometimes they claim 180 seats but they don’t even know how many seats they have won,” he said. He said that if the PTI wanted to give an official position, it should give it through a serious person. “Sher Afzal Marwat can do a comedy show but cannot become a serious politician,” he remarked.