January 28, 2008	Monday	Muharram 18, 1429

QUETTA, Jan 27: The Balochistan chapter of the Pakistan People’s Party has called upon the Election Commission to take notice of alleged campaigning by the Quetta district administration and nazims in Jaffarabad and Nasirabad districts for PML-Q candidates.

Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, the party’s provincial president Nawabzada Lashkari Khan Raisani alleged that government funds were being used to pay for advertisements of PML-Q candidates.

He called upon the Chief Election Commissioner to take action against candidates violating elections rules.

Mr Raisani accused ‘a group within the government’ of being behind acts of terrorism in Waziristan, Swat and Darra Adamkhel and said that the shortage of flour had been created to divert people’s attention from the serious problems they were facing.

He said the country would face a serious crisis if the government postponed the Feb 18 polls.

He claimed that the PPP would win the elections and emerge as the largest parliamentary group in parliament.

Criticising former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, the PPP leader said the party would not split into four factions after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto as predicted by the Chaudhry brothers.

Mr Raisani said that no one could eliminate the PPP and the Chaudhrys would have to eat their words.

He said that the PPP was a symbol of the federation and would foil conspiracies against the integrity of the nation.