Demand for fresh polls

Published April 7, 2005
QUETTA, April 6: All national political parties and the four federating units should evolve consensus on resolving the issue of autonomy, ARD leader Nafis Siddiqui said here on Tuesday. Speaking at the Quetta High Court Bar Association, he said that in order to have ?a liberal and enlightened Pakistan? it was imperative that a fresh mandate be taken by holding transparent elections through an independent election commission and power handed over to those commanding majority.

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