LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf vice chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi says the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) should take notice of violation of the code of conduct through development work in PP-217.

He said the public money was being used to win by-poll in PP-217. `I have shared the picture of the development work with ECP officials and it has taken notice and they are expecting legal action on the violation,` he said.

Mr Qureshi was addressing a press conference at the office of the Majlis Wahadat Muslimeen (MWM) south Punjab in Multan. MWM south Punjab president Allama Iqtdar Naqvi, Saleem Abbas Siddiqi, Allama Qazi Nadir Husain Alvi and others were also present.

He thanked the rell-gious parties and personalities for supporting his son Zain Qureshi in the by-election. He announced that MWM would support the PTI in the by-election and they would constitute a political team to build alliance in future.

The PTI vice chairman said Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari was participating in internship and no one would take him seriously because Asif Ali Zardari takes all the decisions. He said the PPP was not fielding its candidate in the by-election and was supporting the PML-N candidate.

Mr Qureshi said the government was going to furtherincrease thepetrol prices.He said the ECP was checking the PTI funding and they had presented every document. It should also seek funding details from the PPP and the PML-N and should stop targeting the PTI, he demanded.