MULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi says the party will also form government in Balochistan with the support of the allies.

Talking to media here on Monday, he said PTI would form a stable government in the Centre owing to its numerical edge. “The people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have changed the history by making the PTI successful as no party in the past was able to form government again. They not only brought the PTI into power again but also gave it two-third majority,” he said.

Qureshi said PTI’s new candidates defeated ‘giants’ in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which showed the success of the ideology of Imran Khan. He said the multi-party conference had failed in which Maulana Fazlur Rehman tried to convince other parties for boycott of the parliament; however his proposal was rejected.

“Some defeated elements are hatching conspiracies to achieve their notorious designs,” he said.

The PTI leader said there was a major difference between the election held in 2013 and now as the recent polls were transparent.“The international observers have also termed the elections transparent.”

He said demand for the resignation of chief election commissioner was unjustifiable. He said his son Zain Qureshi defeated Ali Musa Gilani, the son of former prime minister Yousaf Gilani, in the first election of his political career.

“I am thankful to the people of Multan who honoured me and my son and rejected former premier [Gilani] despite the fact that he initiated a number of development schemes,” he said.

Published in Dawn, July 31st, 2018