PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf activists on Sunday blocked the Sher Shah Suri Road here against the alleged distribution of ticl(ets among friends and relatives by certain party leadersfor the localgovernment elections.

The protesters were holding banners and placards inscribed with slogans against the `unfair` allotment of tickets.

They also shouted slogans against the party`s provincial president Azam Swati, and members of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly.

Talking to media persons, the workers, including Arbab Nisar Khan, Asif Haadi, Aasia Saleh Khattak and Ilyas Khalil, alleged that the tickets were allotted without taking the party`s parliamentary board into confidence.

They said that the party chairman Imran Khan had appointed Shah Mehmood Qureshi as in charge of the parliamentary board but the KP president Azam Swati and the local MPAs had violated the discipline.

They alleged that the MPAs, including Arif Yousuf, Ziaullah Afridi, Yaseen KhalilandShaukatYousufzai, had given the tickets to their own relatives and close friends and ignored all the founding members of the party.-BureauReport