KARACHI, Oct 11: The Pakistan People’s Party has condemned the imposition of fee on the acquisition of new ID cards and expressed no-confidence on new delimitations.

This was decided at the PPP’s coordination committee meeting held under the chairmanship of Qaim Ali Shah on Thursday.

The meeting was of the view that the introduction of fee for new ID cards would be an additional financial burden on the plight-stricken people and its (ID card) acquisition for the common man would become dearer.

Only those candidates spending money would find it easy to get as many cards as they desire to use these for rigging purpose in the elections.

The meeting, therefore, demanded the abolition of fee on the ID cards and called for adopting a policy with regard to new ID cards which was introduced by the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

The meeting said that government’s failure in rescinding its decision with regard to the fee on ID card would give birth to serious doubts about its intentions in the elections.

“It will become quite clear that the government had planned rigging in the elections if this decision is not withdrawn at the earliest,” the meeting observed.

It said the PPP and other democratic forces would not allow any conspiracy seeking to deprive people of their right to franchise to succeed.

The meeting criticised delimitations for lacking transparency and demanded that people’s opinion be ensured.

The meeting congratulated party’s former secretary-general Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar on his release on bail and said that like the last government of Nawaz Sharif, the cases filed during the rule of present government against PPP leaders, workers and sympathisers were false, concocted and based on vengeance.

Those who attended the meeting included Aftab Shahban Mirani, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Nawab Yusuf Talpur, Prof ND Khan, Taj Haider and Munawwar Suharwardi.