SUKKUR, April 6: The women’s wing of Pakistan People’s Party, Sindh, on Saturday rejected the presidential referendum terming it unconstitutional.

This was announced by the PPP (women’s wing) provincial president, Dr Yasmeen Shah, Shugfita Jumani, Hina Dastegeri and Shami Pathan at a joint press conference at the Shah’s House in Jacobabad.

They said that Gen Pervez Musharraf had misguided the nation and demanded that the coming general elections should be on the party basis. They said that the PPP wanted fair elections despite referendum.

They said that the PPP was united under the leadership of Benazir Bhutto and if the present rulers try to block the way of Ms Benazir, it would result into a chaos in the country.

The PPP ladies wing leaders said that the Thal canal was an issue of life and death for Sindh. The people of Sindh were denied their right of protest but their voice of truth could never be suppressed, they added.

Meanwhile, the acting chairman of the PPP, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, said that the PPP would resist the holding of referendum by Pervez Musharraf to get himself elected as president for five years.

He was talking to newsmen after attending a dinner party given by Ali Mohammad Kalhoro in the honour of the PPP leaders.

He said that no other leader of the PPP except Benazir Bhutto could be the Prime Minister of Pakistan.