September 12, 2008	Friday	Ramazan 11, 1429

MUZAFFARABAD, Sept 11: Peoples Party Azad Kashmir (PPAJK) has made it clear that it would not enter into any coalition with the Muslim Conference and instead would step up its efforts to dislodge the “corrupt regime” at the earliest.

The clarification-cum-announcement was made by the party's top leadership on Wednesday evening at an Iftar feast hosted the Muzaffarabad division chapter of PPAJK to celebrate the victory of Asif Ali Zardari in the presidential election.

Hundreds of local PPAJK workers, notwithstanding a state of friction in the local cadres of main opposition party, attended the programme at a marriage hall in Upper Adda where several banners were displayed by the organisers to felicitate President Zardari.

Earlier, when the PPAJK president Chaudhry Abdul Majeed, MLA, senior vice president Chaudhry Yasin, secretary general Chaudhry Latif Akbar, MLA, reached Upper Adda, escorted by dozens of motorcyclists, they were showered with flower petals amid vociferous pro-Bhutto and pro-Zardari slogans.

“There is no truth in reports that the People’s Party may join in the present government. They are just figment of somebody's imagination.

Our stand regarding this government is crystal clear. It has been imposed on the people of Azad Kashmir, after their right to form a government of their own choice was divested by some institutions,” said Mr Majeed on the occasion. “We reject any such move outright and assure the people that we will shortly rid them of the remnants of Pervez Musharraf in Azad Kashmir,” he added.

Mr Majeed announced that the PPAJK would launch a “vigorous and successful movement” after Eid to dislodge the government that had delivered no good to the masses “except raising personal fortunes.”

He also castigated the AJK government for “delaying the approval of master plan of Muzaffarabad out of prejudices” and vowed that the PPP would shortly get it implemented.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr Akbar regretted that the elements supporting the former president until yesterday were now giving feelers that the PPAJK may join them in the government.

“We cannot stand by the remnants of a dictator and instead would send them packing as soon as possible,” he said.

In his speech, Mr Yasin maintained that democracy stood truly revived in Pakistan after the election of Mr Zardari, “ushering the country in an era of peace and prosperity.”

In a reference to an oft-repeated allegation by almost all opposition parties in AJK, he said the government installed by a (Military Intelligence) brigadier had no future after the revival of true democracy in Pakistan.

Function's key organiser and former AJK minister Khawaja Farooq Ahmed said that the Kashmiris felt encouraged and reinvigorated after the statement of President Zardari about the settlement of their long running problem.