KARACHI: PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday rejected reports that there was any plan to nominate his son Zain Qureshi as a candidate for the Punjab CM election and said all such reports were false.

It is pertinent to mention here that Qureshi’s son Zain had won the by-polls on the provincial seat PP-217 from Multan on July 17. Talking to media at the Supreme Court (SC) building, Qureshi further said that there was zero tolerance for corruption in the PTI as the accountability of the corrupt elements was one of the basic features of the party’s manifesto. “We have neither compromised on these principles in the past nor we intend to do so in future,” he said.

PTI leader said there was no room for self-serving legislation in any constitution of the world, and added sadly the amendments made by the coalition government to the NAB law were person specific. “These were made with the view to give political leaders, including Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz and former president Asif Ali Zardari, amnesty,” he alleged.