SHIKARPUR, Aug 26: The PPP-nominated candidate for the National Assembly seat of Shikarpur, Aftab Shaban Mirani, has expressed dissatisfaction over arrangements for the ensuing general election.

He was talking to newsmen at the press club here on Sunday after visiting the camp of PPP hunger strikers in front of the press club.

Mirani said polling stations were arranged at what he called troubled areas to create difficulties for PPP candidates in the district.

He said polling stations were also shifted from one to other village in the constituency of Benazir Bhutto in Rato Dero and Miro Khan talukas.

The PPP leader said political parties, except government- backed parties, and people had rejected Gen Pervez Musharraf’s constitutional amendments and other non-democratic policies.

Answering a question, Mirani said more than 9,000 bogus votes were registered in Khanpur and other talukas of Shikarpur district and a complaint to this effect was pending with election authorities.

To another question, he said the PPP had not entered into any election alliance with other parties in Sindh as yet, except the seat-to-seat adjustment with the PML (N) in Punjab and with the ANP in NWFP.

He claimed his party would sweep the October election.

The president, NPP, Sindh, and the National Alliance-backed candidate for NA-202, Shikarpur, and PS-12, Khanpur, Dr Mohammad Ibrahim Jatoi, has said he believed in positive politics and rejected politics of agitation and plundering of the national exchequer.

He was talking at a dinner hosted by him for influential people of Shikarpur and Khanpur town at Jatoi House on Sunday night.

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