PTI appeals to people to boycott by-polls

In a joint press conference in Multan, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders Javed Hashmi and Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that politicians were protecting their own interests and were giving priority to self instead of national interest, therefore people should boycott the coming by-polls.Javed Hashmi said that all political parties agreed on his name as presidential candidate but Nawaz Sharif did not accept it. Hashmi said that PPP and PML-N were using backdoor policy.Vice Chairman PTI Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that President Zardri negotiated with him after calling him to the presidency but he did not sell his self esteem.Both the leaders strongly condemned the human rights violations in Balochistan and voiced for limited role of army in the troubled province.