SUKKUR, Nov 7: People’s Party Parliamentarians MNA Syed Khursheed Ahmad Shah has said the country’s problems can only be resolved by restoring real democracy for which an independent parliament is a prerequisite.

Speaking at an Iftar party hosted by Sukkur city PPP president Jamil Ahmad Sahito here on Friday, he said under a conspiracy democracy was not allowed to flourish in the country.

He called upon political workers to continue their struggle for restoration of real democracy in the country.

He held the present and past military regimes responsible for the problems the country was facing on internal as well as external fronts.

The PPP leader said despite efforts by the military rulers, India was not showing any signs to hold talks on issues restraining the two countries from having normal relations.

He said it were political governments that always brought India to the negotiation table. He referred to Benazir Bhutto’s talks with former Indian

prime minister Rajev Gandhi in Islamabad in 1988 and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s visit of Lahore in 1998 during the Nawaz Sharif government.

He said India could not attack Pakistan as it had nuclear deterrent.

He said Pakistan came into being after a sustained struggle by political leaders and workers.

He said many of them were removed from the political scene after the independence, which he termed a conspiracy against the nation.

The MNA said such events led to a series of martial laws in the country which damaged their national interests, halved the country in 1971 and led to the taking up of 90,000 troops of the country as prisoners of war by India.

He paid tribute to the political wisdom of the late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto saying he not only got repatriated the POWs but also made Pakistan a nuclear country.

Jamaat-i-Islami MNA Asadullah Bhutto, District Nazim Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, the Nazims of Sukkur and Rohri talukas and some MPAs attended the Iftar party.