LARKANA: Local leaders of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) have said they have no objection if the forthcoming local government (LG) elections are held under the supervision of army and Rangers.

Addressing a press conference here at the press club on Monday, Larkana district PPP acting president Khair Muhammed Shaikh, general secretary Abdul Fatah Bhutto, Larkana city PPP president Aftab Nek Muhammed Bhutto, Bakrani PPP president Tarique Siyal and others said that in a snap checking, it would clearly emerge that anti-PPP leaders were moving with armed guards.

They said the PPP believed in doing peaceful politics where votes mattered and alleged that not only PPP workers were kidnapped, but their candidates’ posters, party flags were also torn and removed.

They said the nomination papers of Hizbullah Bughio, former MNA, and Abdul Fatah Bhutto, general secretary of the Larkana district PPP, were rejected while forms of their opponents, who were criminals and defaulters, were accepted in Bakrani taluka. This could be assessed and verified from the concerned returning officers, they said.

Published in Dawn, October 20th, 2015

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