ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) criticised the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PT) on Thursday for levelling `baseless allegations` over the postponement of local government elections in Sindh.

The second phase of local body polls in Sindh were put of f until Aug 28 by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) due to bad weather, Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Shazia Marri told reporters at a presser and lamented the `abusive and dirty propaganda against the Sindh government`.

Ms Marri, who is also PPP`s cen-tral information secretary, said the provincial government didn`t submit any request to the ECP for delaying the elections and noted that Karachi had received record mon-soon rains this season.

She claimed that the PTI didn`t even field their candidates in most constituencies for the local government elections.

She also asked the ECP to announce a much-delayed decision in the foreign funding case against the PTI, adding that former prime minister Imran Khan had been criti-cising the election commission because of this case.

She also took exception to Mr Khan`s criticism of PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari, insisting that the former president and the party had no role in Punjab`s chief minister`s election.

Ms Marri regretted that Mr Khan was trying to divide the nation by playing the religious card.

`If a person joins the PTI, it is considered as halal [permissible] act, but if someone jumps ship, the party says it`s haram [forbidden],` she said.

She said when the PTI won elections, it claimed everything was right but started levelling rigging allegations in case it lost the contest.