Elahi accuses Sanaullah of using IB to 'trace location' of party MPAs ahead of CM election.

LAHORE -- Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Parvez Elahi on Tuesday accused Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah of using the Intelligence Bureau (IB) to 'trace the location' of legislators with the intent to influence them ahead of the chief minister's election on July 22.

The Supreme Court had on July 1 ruled that a new Punjab chief minister election would take place on July 22 and said incumbent Hamza Shehbaz would remain in office till then as it heard the PTI and the PML-Q's pleas against Hamza's election and oath-taking.

Addressing a press conference alongside PTI and PML-Q leaders in Lahore, Elahi, who is himself is a candidate for top slot, said IB Director General Fawad Asadullah 'must refrain from such acts as he was monitoring the locations of PML-Q and PTI lawmakers at the behest of Shehbaz Sharif and Sanaullah'.

'It is my warning to the IB head that he...