QUETTA, Oct 12: Jamhoori Watan Party information secretary and Alliance for Restoration of Democracy provincial president Amanullah Kanrani has asked President Pervez Musharraf to ensure that coming elections will be transparent and fear and the army will be sent back to barracks.

In a statement, he held the army rulers responsible for creating a political crisis and disharmony among the provinces and dividing the people on sectarian lines.

He said that October 12 was a dark day in the history of the country as on this day seven years ago the generals for the third time captured power from civilian administration through extra-constitutional methods that had put the country’s integrity at stake.

Mr Kanrani said that while President Pervez Musharraf appealed to people to save the Pakistan of Quaid-i-Azam, he was negating the principles laid down by the founder of nation by suppressing a democratic movement.

He said that due to wrong political decisions of former military dictators, the country was divided in the seventies when an autocratic ruler refused to recognise the verdict of the Bengali people.

He criticised what he called Gen Musharraf’s pro-American policy and said that sovereignty had been surrendered to the United States.