KARACHI   -  The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday refused to issue production orders for Opposition Leader in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh, in connection with the upcoming Senate elections on Thursday.

The matter of production orders for Haleem Adil Sheikh was forwarded to the country’s supreme electoral body by the Election Commission of Sindh, after a plea was submitted in Sindh Assembly secretariat.

The ECP after reviewing the matter decided against issuing production orders for Haleem Adil. The Election Commission of Pakistan has appointed a regional election officer, who will meet incarcerated PTI leader Haleem Adil Sheikh and will confirm his position as an endorser for the Senate candidate. Opposition Leader in Sindh Assembly, Haleem Adil Sheikh had been booked under terrorism charges. According to police, a case on the complaint of the Sindh government was registered at Memon Goth PS under terrorism charges, aerial firing and creating a disturbance against Haleem Adil. Sheikh is currently handed over to the police on two-day physical remand by an anti-terrorism court in Karachi.

Meanwhile, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Karachi General Secretary and MPA Sindh Saeed Afridi has said that the PTI workers will stage a protest in front of the Sindh Chief Minister House on Friday if fake cases against them are not withdrawn.

He said that the Sindh government registered a fake FIR against opposition leader in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Shaikh. He further said that Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on the previous day tried to create atmosphere of terrorism in PS-88 by-elections in Malir area of the metropololis. Saeed said that they condemned bullying of PPP in the by-elections. 

He further said that PPP Jiyalas harassed their party women and fired on their workers. He told that the opposition was unfolding secrets of Sindh government’s corruption.