March 12, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The PML-N leadership on Thursday alleged that the government was using state institutions and intelligence agencies for election of its candidate as the Senate Chairman. Addressing a press conference here, the former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said the PML- N senators were being called by officials of an intelligence agency that they should not vote Yusuf Raza Gilani for chairmanship of the Senate. "The officers of agencies are calling our senators asking them to use their vote in favour of the govt candidate," Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, flanked by Ahsan Iqbal and Marriyum Aurangzeb, said. He presented Senator Hafiz Abdul Karim before media who said that he received calls from two officers of the institutions who wanted him not to vote for Gilani.