Fawad Lambasts ECP For Deferring By-Elections Over Floods' Excuse.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry has lashed out at the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for postponing scheduled by-polls just few days ahead of the election date over lame excuse of floods.

Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, Fawad stated that it was strange that Shehbaz Sharif was sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan on the day, when he was to be charged in the Rs 24 billion corruption case. He said that the Ramazan Sugar Mill case has not been heard for the last two years, and now NAB pleaded that the law was amended; hence it now did not fall under its jurisdiction. However, Fawad stated that they could not comment anything because it might be contempt of court. Fawad said that the closed-room decisions have neither quality nor durability; hence interest of the country lies in the decisions made by the people, he added.

Fawad Chaudhry said that the millions of people showed solidarity with Imran Khan which was unprecedented. About ECP's decision of postponing by-polls, he said, 'Besides being biased, the ECP is also suffering from an administrative crisis and incompetence, as it declared 40 lakh voters dead and now postponing the elections after spending billions of rupees out of public money,' he added. He made it clear that the PTI would get a landslide victory in the elections and that was why the nation...