PESHAWAR, May 2: Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians leader from Sindh Comrade Jam Saqi has denied any need of a new constitution demanded by certain nationalist groups, saying that the federating units and masses will be deprived of their present rights in new constitution.

Speaking at the ‘Dialogue’ programme of the Khyber Union of Journalists at Peshawar Press Club on Tuesday, he said Gen Pervez Musharraf had announced agriculture reforms after coming into power, but he let down the landless people and instead distributed government lands among his colleagues. He said Punjab had blackmailed the general on the Kalabagh and other issues of national importance.

He accused a power mafia in Punjab of actively sowing seeds of hatred in Sindh and NWFP on national issues, because this mafia saw no future of the country in the changing world.

Mr Saqi said that the country faced a serious crisis, as prices of daily-use items, including sugar, cement and oil had increased manifold.

Gen Musharraf, he said, should hold free, fair and transparent elections and hand over power to the winning party.