PESHAWAR, Aug 4: The Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians has said that all genuine democratic forces had agreed on the one-point agenda of bringing to an end the military’s intervention in state affairs.

According to a statement issued here on Friday, PPP provincial Chief Rahimdad Khan observed that none of the military generals would dare in future to overthrow an elected government as it was the last regime, headed by Gen Pervez Musharraf, which had dislodged an elected government in 1999.

He said political forces would never allow army generals in the future to tamper with the democratic system and play havoc with the country. He was speaking to party workers at the residence of Malik Aurangzeb in the Motian village in Haripur.

PPP district coordinator Sardar Abdur Rauf advocate, Zulfiqar Qureshi, Pervez Akhtar Rana, Haji Abdur Rasheed Khalil, Hasrat Khan, Abdul Basit Chaudhary and others also spoke on the occasion.

Mr Khan, who is on a three-day tour of the rain-affected areas of Hazara region, said the regime had failed to solve major national issues since coming into power.

He said the people had been facing price hike, lawlessness and unemployment for the last seven years, while a selective group of ruling families were benefiting out of the entire situation.

He said the charter of democracy had set the future outline for political forces who had been struggling for the restoration of democracy and the rule of law in the country.

He said that politically bankrupt groups and individuals were opposed to the charter.

Mr Khan said free, fair and independent elections were the only and last solution to the political crisis and the ruler could not avert it through short-lived manipulations.