PPP to resist referendum move

Published April 1, 2002

GUJRAT, March 31: Fresh delimitations is the beginning of the pre-poll rigging by the government, says former federal minister and PPP secretary general Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar.

Talking to newsmen here on Sunday, he said the nation was still paying for the wrongdoings of the late Gen Ziaul Haq and Gen Musharraf’s plan to hold a referendum in May to have himself elected president would be foiled by the PPP which would mobilize the people in every district to thwart the move.

According to him, retired armymen holding key offices had been ‘misguiding’ Gen Musharraf that a majority of the nation was in favour of referendum.

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