QUETTA, Feb 9: Punjab PML-Q president Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said that people should vote for his party in the polls to save Pakistan from the clutches of Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari.

Speaking to a meeting of his party workers here on Saturday, he asserted that people would not boycott the elections on the call of political groups that “even did not understand the parliamentary system of the governance”.

Balochistan PML-Q chief Jam Muhammad Yousuf, Arbab Hashim Kasi, Sardar Fateh Muhammad Hasni, Anwarul Haq Kakar also addressed the meeting. Ex-federal minister Muhammad Ali Durrani was also present.

Pervaiz Elahi said that if Mr Sharif and Mr Zardari again came to power they would “reopen the doors of malpractices” to destroy the economic progress.

He said that Nawaz Sharif had no political or economic programme for the country as he was taking directives from the PPP co-chairman. Mr Zardari, on the other hand, was popular as Mr Ten per cent during the two periods when the PPP was in power.

Ex-chief minister of Punjab announced that his education programme, which was introduced in Punjab, would be expanded to the whole of Pakistan if it won the elections.