JI following policy of playing two sides: PTI

ISLAMABAD: Differences have widened between the Pakistan Tehrik-e-insaf (PTI) and Jamaate-islami (JI) after the latter’s chief Sirajul Haq said that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Pervez Khattak had sought his votes during the election of the Senate chairman on “orders from the top.”

Reacting to the “allegation,” PTI Information Secretary Fawad Chaudhry alleged that the JI was following the policy of serving the two sides.

In a statement, he said the JI’S politics was strange, as on the one hand Haq was levelling allegations against the PTI while on the other hand, he continued to be a part of the Pti-led government in KP.

He recalled that it was the JI that had gone to the Supreme Court against Nawaz Sharif in the Panama case and now it was the Pakistan Muslim League-nawaz (PML-N) ally in the Senate. He wondered why the JI had not parted ways with the KP government so far.

Chaudhry said if Haq had any issues with THEIR party, HE should irst tender his resignation as senator, as the PTI had helped him win a seat in the upper house of Parliament.

Haq said the next general election would be of no use if there was rigging as had happened in the Senate election. He said the corrupt elite had failed to serve the masses. He said a group of families had been ruling the country since 1947.