KARACHI:The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has decided to support Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) candidate Hafiz Naeemur Rehman in the election for Karachi mayor slot. A spokesperson for the Imran Khan-led party announced the development, stressing the need for transparent elections. He also accused the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) of pre-poll rigging, claiming that elected local representatives were being abducted through the Sindh police.

Saying the PPP had run away from the local government elections four times, the spokesperson alleged that now they wanted to hold the mayor election in haste due to their vested interests. The PTI spokesperson said elected representatives were being abducted before their oath-taking ceremony, adding that the party had approached the court on this matter. He said the PPP and the MQM-Pakistan did not want to accept the public mandate. Meanwhile, the PPP has approved the name of Murtaza Wahab for the slot of the Karachi mayor.