HYDERABAD, June 30: The Hyderabad chapter of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan has said that if the elections were held on the latest voters’ list issued by the Election Commission, a civil war will break out in the country.

Speaking at a meeting here on Saturday, JUP leaders said that massive irregularities had been made in the voters’ list. Nazim Ali Arain presided over the meeting.

Taking stock of the situation arising out of the publication of preliminary voters’ list, the meeting alleged that the bogus voters’ list was a part of the government’s planning to rig the next elections.

The leaders demanded that the election commission should cancel the voters’ list and hold the elections on the 2002 voters’ list.The meeting observed that the names of thousands of voters belonging to opposition parties had been deleted from the list and the names of bogus voters had been registered in many constituencies of Hyderabad.

It pointed out that even the names of family members of MNA Dr Sahibzada Abul Khair Mohammad Zubair and other party leaders had not been included in the voters’ list.

The meeting observed that the rulers, instead of depending on people’s power, had chosen the path of rigging.

It warned that if elections were held on the current list, there would be a massive rigging which could lead to a civil war.

—Bureau