KARACHI, Aug 3: Secretary General of the Pakistan Peoples Party, Sindh Chapter Nafees Siddiqui said on Wednesday that Chief Election Commissioner’s writ was still not effective as the regime had allegedly was violating the code of conduct for the local body elections and continued with the victimization of his party activists.

“The government has broken all records of dhandhli,” he alleged Speaking at a news conference at the Karachi Press Club, he said if the regime failed to ensure free, fair and transparent elections at this critical juncture, Pakistan’s stability and image and the democratic dispensation would be seriously undermined.

He warned of serious negative consequences if the regime’s policies of victimizing and bulldozing the opposition political forces continued. Mr Siddiqui said on Aug 11 the ARD’s All-Party Conference would be held in Islamabad to focus on the alleged pre-poll rigging by the regime besides informing the diplomatic corps of the kidnapping and victimization of the party supported candidates in the local body elections, along with their proposers and seconders.

Mr Sidduqui referred to the registration of an FIR against Mr Saeed Ghani , Nazim UC-4 in Jamshed Town by Raja Gul Nawaz advocate who is also the PML(Q) lawyer wing’s central vice president in which he had accused Mr Ghani and others of trespassing into his office and ransacking it besides snatching away cash and kind at gun point.

Mr Siddiqui said the purpose of the FIR against Mr Saeed Ghani, who had been Awam Dost’s leader in the CDGK, was aimed at getting him disqualified. Mr Siddiqui said the complaint was lodged after Mr Ghani had filed objection to the shifting of polling stations in the UC to a more crowded place from more convenient and spacious premises where voting had been taking place in the past elections.

President Karachi division PPP Rashid Rabbani accused the government of conspiring to deprive the people of their right to vote. Mr Saeed Ghani refuted the charges and said the time of incident the PML(Q) leader had mentioned in his complaint, at that time Raja Gul Nawaz was sitting in the police station with him where a large number of people had also assembled to condemn Mr Raja Gul Nawaz’s action.

Mr Ghani pointed out that Raja Gul Nawaz had allegedly implicated him in a case because he had got illegal constructions on government property demolished for the construction of a roundabout. Mr Ghani also distributed copies of the FIR and complaints of the PML(Q) leader. Mr Ghani demanded that the FIR in which he and his colleagues had been falsely implicated should be withdrawn.