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| July 22, 2002 | Monday | Jamadi-ul-Awwal 11,1423 |
PAT chief to call on Musharraf tomorrow
ISLAMABAD, July 21: A five-member delegation of the Pakistan Awami Tehreek led by the party chairman, Dr Tahirul Qadri, will call on President General Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday.
According to a statement issued here by the PAT central information secretary, Syed Abid Gillani, earlier the PAT chief was invited for a meeting with the President.
But the party’s central executive council had placed the condition that only a delegation comprising would meet the President.
After Dr Qadri’s refusal to meet President Musharaf alone, a fresh invitation was extended to the PAT leaders. The delegation includes party members from all the four provinces and federal capital.
PRE-POLL RIGGINGS: The PAT chief has said pre-polls rigging is at its peak and the “rulers’ statements in support of their blue- eyed parties”.
He said such gestures have raised doubt about the impartiality and fairness of forthcoming general elections.
Speaking to a public gathering on Saturday, he criticized the government for taking sides with some political parties and deviating from its seven-point agenda.
The seven-point agenda had changed into a single point agenda of bringing the political party of its choice to power, he added.
Mr Qadri said, like the rulers in the past, the government was also engaged in practices of prolonging their rule and in the process they were crushing the democratic norms and institutions.
He asked the government to refrain from such unconstitutional acts and added that these wrong doings on part of government would not only create political unrest but also have far-reaching effects on the nation as a whole.
The PAT chairman regretted that the government was forcing the district and Tehsil Nazimeen and Niab Nazimeen to change their loyalties in favour of certain political parties. The government was engaged in the dirty game of pre-polls rigging, he added.
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