Liaquat accuses PTI leadership of selling Senate ticket to Saifullah Abro for Rs350m.

Byline: Qurban Ali Khushik

DADU -- Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Liaquat Ali Jatoi has accused the party leadership of having sold a Senate ticket to Saifullah Abro for Rs350m. 'Abro parachuted into the party recently and managed to clinch the ticket,' he alleged.

Jatoi, who is a former Sindh chief minister, said at a press conference at the residence of PTI Dadu president Sardar Ashiq Ali Zounr on Monday that the decision was simply unjustifiable and an affront to loyal party leaders and workers.

He heaped scorn on Governor House in Karachi which, he said, was at the centre of such decisions. The indulgence in drawing room politics at the supposedly impartial institution was detrimental to PTI's core interests in Sindh.

He said that a handful of people sitting cosy in their rooms in Karachi were taking highly important decisions without taking into account ground realities, hence their decisions were damaging the party image beyond repair.

'Governor House is at the centre of such decisions; if not heard, we will decide future course of action on Friday'

He lamented that the PTI leadership grossly neglected party leaders and office-bearers belonging to the interior of Sindh who had remained unconditionally loyal to the party in Senate election.

Jatoi said that he had sent complaints to the party chairman Imran Khan detailing all the issues. If the prime minister did not take notice of their complaints, he would gather PTI leadership of interior Sindh, his supporters and like-minded people in Betto Jatoi village on Feb 26 and take a decision about his future course of action, he warned.

He said that PTI had completely failed to provide any relief to Sindh where the...