Benazir’s Chehlum on February 7
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KARACHI: Benazir Bhutto’s Chehlum will be observed on February 7.
This was announced by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Sindh’s General Secretary Nafees Siddiqui at a press conference held at his residence Thursday.
He demanded that Karachi, Umerkot, Khairpur, Shikarpur, Tharparkar, Jacobabad, Dadu, and Sanghar districts should be declared sensitive and Pakistan Army and Rangers should be deployed inside and outside the polling stations in these districts on February 18.
“The PML-Q and its allied parties have planned to deploy armed volunteers at the polling stations therefore it is obligatory on the chief election commissioner (CEC) and the caretaker government to prevent this nefarious plan of the former ruling coalition. The CEC should call the army and the rangers to maintain peace inside and outside the polling stations,” he said.
Siddiqui, who is also incharge of the PPP’s elections monitoring cell in Sindh, said the party had resumed its election campaign in the province. “We attach importance to the elections because PPP would take a democratic revenge from the assassins of Benazir Bhutto by a landslide victory on February 18.”
He blamed former prime minister Shaukat Aziz, his cabinet ministers and the former Punjab chief minister Parvez Elahi for the wheat crisis and urged that they must be arrested and cases be lodged against them. “Aziz deceived the nation and foreign donors by presenting incorrect figures of GDP growth and thus secured loans from international lending and monetary institutions,” he claimed. He also lambasted the Musharraf-led-regime saying that his tenure was a total and complete failure. “Rigged election results will be disastrous for the federation that is already shaken due to wrong political and economic policies of this regime.”
Siddiqui, who is also a lawyer, said that the caretaker government lacked the authority to establish Qazi Courts in Peshawar and establish a federal high court in Islamabad. Rashid Rabbani, Waqar Mehdi, Saeed Ghani and Rafiq Engineer were also present at the conference.
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