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| 10 July 2004 | Saturday | 21 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1425 |
By-polls: PPP hopeful of defeating Aziz
PESHAWAR, July 9: The People's Party Parliamentarians hopes that genuine democratic forces in Tharparkar and Attockwill get the nominees of genuine opposition elected in the forthcoming by-elections in Sindh and Punjab.
The PPP provincial president Rahimdad Khan, in a statement, termed the nomination of Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz a blow to the ruling Pakistan Muslim League, which had failed to resist the dictations by 'dictators'.
The resignation of Mir ZafarullahKhan Jamali and nomination of Mr Aziz has exposed the political wisdom and commitment of the united PML leadership, he added.
The Alliance for Restoration Democracy (ARD), he hoped, would field joint candidates on both seats and give a stunning defeat to the nominee the of foreign financial institutions. He said the people had given defeat to the nominees of exploitative classes in the past and would give a similar results in the by-elections.
He alleged that the PML government had started squandering of national exchequer on the electioneering of Mr Aziz in the Punjab and Sindh, which would set a wrong precedence in the country. Despite having portfolio of finance, Mr Aziz had done nothing for alleviation of poverty in Pakistan, he added.
He alleged that the rulers had made the country a satellite of the western powers after the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq and carrying out their agenda in Pakistan. Mr Khan said only PPP could free Pakistan from the foreign political and economic hold, which had derailed the country from a true democratic path.
Fakhr-i-Alam Khalil: The president of Pakistan Peoples' Party, Sofaid Dheri, Fakhr-i-Alam Khalil has said that his party will come into power through the votes of the masses, saying that it was the sole party, which has been opposing the military dictators in the country.
Speaking at a meeting of the party workers here on Friday, he said that the PPP had rejected the offers of the military rulers to join government, because it believed in the democracy.
He said the history of the PPP was full of sacrifices. The late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto laid down his life but could not compromise on democracy and same was true for his sons, who fell pray to the anti-democratic forces.
Mr Khalil said that Asif Ali Zardari had been languishing in jail for the last eight years without any proper justification. The people, he added, were looking forward to Benazir Bhutto to come here and pull out the nation from the prevalent crisis.
He urged the party workers to convey the party message to the masses, so that they could stand up against the tyranny of the present rulers and pave the pave for democracy in the country.
Mr Khalil told the party workers to prepare themselves for the general elections, saying that the present rulers had played havoc with the democratic institutions and the day was not far off when the people would throw them out of power.
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