PESHAWAR, June 15: The Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians has said that though the charter of democracy is not the manifesto of any political party, it has drawn a line of demarcation between the pro and anti-democratic forces.

Speaking at a PPP reception at a local hotel on Thursday, PPP NWFP chief Rahimdad Khan said the allies of the military rulers were engaged in finding faults with the charter, because they were bent upon opposing it.

He said the charter was a good omen for the future political course of the country as it had set some basic principles for national politics.

He was speaking at a luncheon hosted by Mohammad Akbar Khan in honour of party workers and journalists. Convener of the people’s Lawyers Forum Barrister Masood Kausar, Saeed Ahmed Khan, Fareed Toofan and other PPP leaders were present on the occasion.

Mr Khan said PPP was striving to restore political activism to rid the country of anti-democratic forces bent upon the destruction of parliamentary democratic system. He said the PPP had joined hands with the Pakistan Muslim League (N) to pave way for real democracy in the country.

He asked the PPP workers to prepare themselves for the general elections and by mobilising the people throughout the province to bring success to the party. He said people were the fountainhead of political power and not the dictators and their allies.

To a query, he said PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto would come back to the country when party and circumstances would allow her. He said she would return before the elections.

He said those who were dreaming about general elections excluding Ms Bhutto and Nazwaz Sharif were living in fools’ paradise. He said the incumbent rulers and their political allies had plundered Pakistan, auctioned the profit-earning industrial units despite the opposition by the major political parties and the judiciary.

He said the PPP after coming into power would reverse all dictatorial decisions of the rulers.