September 7, 2002	Saturday	Jamadi-us-Saani28,1423

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ISLAMABAD, Sept 6: The specifics of the understanding reached between Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League(N) for seat-to-seat adjustments will be settled before Sept 14, the last date for withdrawal of candidature.

“We have agreed on broad-parameters of the cooperation between the two parties however the specifics will be settled within the next couple of days,” acting secretary-general of PPP Mian Raza Rabbani told Dawn .

However, the reports that the PPP has acceded to a request of the PML(N) to withdraw candidates against chairman PML(N) Raja Zafarul Haque and its senior vice president Syed Zafar Ali Shah — both contesting from two seats of Rawalpindi seat — have created a great deal of restiveness among the party workers.

Mr Rabbani said the seat-to-seat would be possible only on a very limited number of seats because of lack of time. A meeting between the two leaders would be convened either in Lahore or Islamabad where in the presence of ARD chief Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan the seat-to-seat adjustment would be finalized on case to case basis.

Central information secretary of PML(N) Siddiqul Farooque lamented that the government agencies were playing dirty to spoil the understanding reached at between the two parties.

He said the withdrawal submitted by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif had not yet officially accepted and doubts were being created by giving an impression that the move was not genuine.

Leadership of both the political parties were mature enough and could clearly read the dirty tactics and deception game being carried out by the government and state-owned media, he added.