Sharjeel refutes PTI’s allegation of buying MPAs

Sindh Information and Transport Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon has termed the allegation of horse trading leveled by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's Fawad Chaudhry as the politics of lies. He challenged the PTI to file a reference against them.

Talking to the media at Rawal House in Hyderabad on Monday after a reception for the newly-elected body of Hyderabad Press Club, he said, the charges are as baseless as other packs of lies which are time and again disseminated by that party.

Fawad Chaudhry on Saturday had blamed Memon and another provincial minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah for trying to buy the loyalties of PTI's MPAs ahead of the vote of confidence in the Punjab Assembly.

"I am ready to face it if I had spoken to any member of PTI," Memon maintained.

He asserted that he would appear before the investigating police officer in Punjab the day he is booked in the case of trying to bribe the MPAs.

"On the contrary, an audio of PTI Chairman Imran Khan has been leaked in which he can be heard telling about buying [loyalties] of five members."

The information minister refuted the claim made in a newspaper article which stated that cases against Pakistan Peoples Party's Co-Chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari, being heard in the accountability court in Rawalpindi, are being transferred to Karachi.

He said all the National Accountability Bureau references filed by the bureau in Rawalpindi are still being heard in the same court.

He also denied the report that his party struck some deal with the establishment.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 3^rd, 2023.