If PM has reservations he should challenge Senate polls: Shah Mehmood

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Friday that if Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has reservations over the election of the Senate chairman then he should challenge it, otherwise he should refrain from criticism. The PTI leader was addressing a gathering, where he asked the prime minister to retract his statements regarding Sadiq Sanjrani, in which he alleged that the newly-elected chairman Senate holds no respect as votes in his favour were bought. He further said that the government needs to scrutinise its claim of ending loadshedding in the country as it still persists. Shah said that the time for the National Reconciliation Ordinance is gone as it neither has a place in the law nor in the Constitution. Balochistan Chief Minister Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo on Thursday had threatened to lead a protest march toward the capital city upon Abbasi's failure to retract his earlier statement about the recent Senate elections. On March 24, while addressing the inauguration ceremony of first ever CCV cable and Aluminium Alloy Plant at Sundur Industrial Area in Lahore, Prime Minister Abbasi had urged the members of the opposition to jointly nominate a new Senate chairman. ?The Senate chairman also serves as the acting president and it is a disgrace to the country that a man who bought votes became the leader of the upper house. Can there be any respect for the country after that?? he said.