PTI, PML-Q leaders meet ahead of Punjab CM poll

Lahore: PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi called on Speaker Punjab Assembly Chaudhry Pervez Elahi on Wednesday.

A detailed consultation was held on the issue of the Punjab Chief Minister's election. Elahi took the PTI leadership into confidence about the number game.

Elahi said Alhamdulillah PTI and PML had the majority in the House and that every attempt to kidnap or harass the members of the assembly would be thwarted.

He said after the statement of Rana Sanaullah, teh party had taken the matter to the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the people had given the decision in favor of PTI Chairman Imran Khan, adding the majority of the House of the Punjab Assembly stood with Imran Khan and his nominated candidate Pervez Elahi.

Former Punjab Governor Omar Sarfraz Cheema, Hussain Elahi, Mian Mahmood-ur-Rasheed, Mian Aslam Iqbal, Sajid Ahmed Khan Bhatti, Murad Ras, Waseem Badozai, Hafiz Amar Yasir, Mohsin Leghari and newly elected members of Punjab Assembly Zain Qureshi, Amir Iqbal Shah, Saifuddin Khosa, Major (r) Ghulam Sarwar, Shabbir Gujjar were present on the occasion.