PDM decides not to contest by: polls on PTI's vacant seats.

ISLAMABAD -- Ruling Pakistan Democratic Alliance (PDM) has unanimously decided not to contest the by elections on 35 seats of the National Assembly, declared vacant after acceptance of the submitted resignations of Pakistan Tehreek Insaf lawmakers by the speaker National Assembly Raja Pervez Ashraf. Credible sources told The Nation that PDM chief Maulana Fazl ur Rehman remain active today and held telephonic contact with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Asif Ali Zardari and other leaders and discussed the possible entry of PTI into the National Assembly, that was why it was decided that 35 of their MNAs' resignations be accepted and no party in the PDM alliance...

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