ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) filed on Wednesday afresh petition before the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) seeking tostop the issuance of a notification of Senator-elect Yousaf Raza Gillani’svictory.
PTI MNAs Farrukh Habib, Malika Bukhari, and Kanwal Shauzab moved theamended petition as per directives of the election commission that hadrejected the party’s petition yesterday and directed it to file a petitionafresh making the lawmakers, who it alleged had been bribed to switchloyalties in last week’s Senate elections, a party.
The ruling party has challenged Yousaf Raza Gillani’s victory on the basisof a leaked video in which his son Ali Haider Gillanilink was purportedly advising MNAson how to waste their vote if they don’t want to vote for the government’scandidate.
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Retired Justice Altaf Ibrahim, an ECP member from Punjab, had asked formaking those alleged to have been bribed as party in the case.
