ISLAMABAD March 23: Pakistan Muslim League (QA)’s Secretary General Gohar Ayub Khan has advised President Pervez Musharraf to consult those people who were capable of securing for him votes if he intended to hold a referendum.

Speaking at a Pakistan Day function organised by the party at its central secretariat on Saturday, the PML (QA) leader said that if real representatives of the people were ignored the fate of this referendum would not be any different from that of 1984 when government officials had filled the ballot boxes at polling stations.

Referring to the condition of graduation for contesting the assemblies polls, he said it will only create a new class of people and deprive the majority of its representation.

He said that Pakistan had been founded to protect the life, honour and the interests of the Muslims of the subcontinent. Had it not been created, the Muslims would have been on the mercy of Hindu majority.

He said the developments following the partition had proved that the two-nation theory was correct.