LAHORE, Dec 9: The Millat Party would contest the elections under the present setup with the “sole motive of bringing the thieves and their theft back to the country.”

Mr Muhammad Ali Durrani, newly-appointed general secretary of the party, told newsmen here on Sunday that Pakistan had been left with no option but to get its looted money back after the failure of efforts to get its debt written off in wake of Afghanistan crisis.

Next elections, he demanded, be held on party basis. He said male seats for the next National Assembly be increased from the present 210 to 310 and female seats to 102. Some 104 seats be reserved under the proportional representation, with 33 per cent going to women. He also wanted the minorities present share of 10 seats doubled.

Durrani said the provincial assembly seats should be increased with the same proportion.

For the Senate seats, he said, the MP felt that they be increased to 75 for every province from their present 19 and capital be given two instead of one seat. “This is necessary to bring new faces to the political scene.”

About the constitutional changes to meet the demands of the party, he said that the present regime was empowered to do that under the Supreme Court verdict.