PTI to resist non-party LB polls in Islamabad

ISLAMABAD: PTI leader Dr Shahzad Waseem said on Tuesday that his party will strongly resist any attempt to hold the local bodies (LB) elections in the federal capital on non-party basis.
Talking to representatives of PTI belonging to different union councils (UCs) of Islamabad Capital Territory, who met him here at his office, he said that his party hailed the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) decision on holding election on party basis. He was of the view that the ruling PML-N fears defeat in the LB polls and that is why it was insisting non-party basis LB election in Islamabad.
He said that holding the LB polls on non-party basis was a clear violation of the basic human rights described in the Article 17(2) of the Constitution of Pakistan which should not be allowed at any cost.