PML-N leader Attaullah Tarar said that he saw large queues of people outside the PPP’s election office in Lahore.

“I asked someone what is happening here and they said people’s party workers are distributing money after asking for identity cards (ID),” Tarar said, adding that these people were then asked to vow on religious texts to vote for the PPP in the general elections.

He said that after going inside they found cash counting machines with bundles of cash, iPads which were being used to list down ID card numbers, ID card copies and receipts for the transactions.

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