MULTAN – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) nominee for Punjab chief minister Sardar Usman Buzdar paid blood money to resolve a murder case against him.
According to police, a case was registered against Buzdar and his father for plotting murder after six men were killed in a firing incident during the 1998 polls, Geo News reported.
A case was registered against 20 people over involvement in the murder, police said, adding that the people had opened fire while campaigning for Buzdar.
A court had declared the PTI’s nominee for Punjab CM and others offenders in the case, police said. However, Buzdar and his father paid Rs750,000 as blood money and settled the case.
Additionally, another allegation pertaining to Buzdar making 300 bogus appointments during his tenure as nazim has also surfaced.
However, Buzdar’s brother dismissed the allegations as baseless, adding that the National Accountability Bureau had dropped the case after it failed to find sufficient evidence.
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On Friday, prime minister-elect Imran Khan had announced Buzdar’s name as a candidate for the post of CM Punjab via a video message. Explaining his decision, the PTI chief had said: “Sardar Usman hails from the most impoverished area of Punjab. These people have no water, no electricity, no hospitals.
Buzdar is an advocate and a landlord by profession. Born in May 1969, in the tribal stretch of Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab, Buzdar is the eldest of five brothers and sisters. While he received his early education from his family village, Barthi, he later enrolled at Multan’s Bahauddin Zakariya University for a masters in political science and then completed an LLB.
