PTI MNAs’ exodus to pick up pace: Khawaja Asif

PML-N leader maintains no MNA was given a single penny

ISLAMABAD:

Former defence minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Sunday said that the number of parliamentarians leaving the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) would increase in the following two days.

Talking to a private television channel, the PML-N leader maintained that no MNA was given a single penny. “The state machinery was used in all the transactions carried out by Imran Khan over the past six years,” he alleged.

“Ministries were also ‘conferred’ for these transactions,” he said. “The Imran government relied on bribery and corruption.

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“The opposition fully honours and respects the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) conference,” he stated.

Asif’s statement came after the joint opposition had submitted a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan in the National Assembly. The NA speaker has call the session on March 25 to take up the matter.