PTI moves ECP for Gillani's disqualification: leader.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday filed a petition in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) seeking disqualification of former prime minister and Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) joint candidate for Senate Yousaf Raza Gillani.

On Tuesday, a leaked video clip showed Yousaf Gillani's son, Ali Haider Gillani, telling some unidentified PTI MPs about techniques of wasting their votes.

In a press conference, Yousaf Raza Gillani and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari played down the clip saying asking for votes from every constituent was their 'democratic right'.

Speaking to media outside ECP on Wednesday, PTI leaders Farrukh Habib and Kanwal Shauzab, while accusing the former premier of indulging in corruption practices, regretted the clip.

The PTI has filed a petition with the electoral process regulator to disqualify Yousaf Raza Gillani, he said...

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