LG elections: No coalition with MQM or PPP, says PTI

Ali Zaidi also announced that candidates from the PTI will contest on all 236 union council and union committee seats.

KARACHI:

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Karachi president Ali Zaidi has announced that the party will not form a coalition with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement or the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in the upcoming local government elections.

However, the party will consider forming an alliance with like-minded parties, which are not involved in political, religious, and economic terrorism, he said on Monday. The ruling PPP government is afraid of PTI's popularity in the region and are harassing its political workers, he said. "The PPP is trying to create a thana culture in the region," claimed Zaidi, who alleged that the PPP had started pre-poll rigging in Sindh. He also announced that candidates from the PTI will contest on all 236 union council and union committee seats.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 8^th,  2015.