ISLAMABAD, July 19(ABC): PTI Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry said Tuesday that the PTI — once it forms its government in Punjab — may impose a ban on Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah and Punjab Home Minister Attaullah Tarar’s entry into the province next week.
The PTI leader’s comments came during a press conference in the federal capital after the interior minister made a statement last night, claiming that five PTI MPs could “disappear” during the voting for Punjab’s chief minister.
Voting will take place on July 22 and it is expected that PTI candidate Pervez Elahi may win after the party’s landslide victory in Sunday’s Punjab by-polls which placed it as the largest party in the provincial assembly.
The PTI leader said that the CM election session’s presiding officer, Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Dost Mazari, should ban Sanaullah immediately after the statement he made last night.
Fawad said that if Mazari doesn’t do so, the PTI may ban Sanaullah and Tarar from entering Punjab a day after the party’s government is formed in the province on July 22.
The former information minister also berated the government for making “false cases” against the PTI leadership — during the events leading up to the “Azadi March” on May 25 and during the Punjab by-polls.
“…it (government) made a false sectarian case against Zulfi Bukhari and tried to arrest him; attempted to arrest a decent man, Shibli Faraz; also arrested Shahbaz Gill, where he was not even given water for over four hours,” he said.