*PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Finance Minister Taimur Khan Jhagraclaimed on Friday an opposition lawmaker made him an offer to back ano-trust motion against Chief Minister Mahmood Khan.*
In a Twitter post, he said, “It didn’t take long… Received a call from anopposition legislator a few minutes ago.” He added he told the caller to“get lost, in no uncertain terms”.
The minister said he had informed the chief minister about the offer. “Someof us are NOT for sale. And neither does our “zameer” awaken wheneverconvenient,” he maintained.
Speaking to ARY News later, he said he didn’t want to reveal the identityof the caller for the time being. He quoted the opposition lawmaker astelling him that there was a forward bloc in the ruling PTI.
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“I asked the man who contacted me to get lost. I am not the person whosells zameer (conscience),” Jhagra said, claiming that senior party leadersare being bribed to defect from the party.
