ISLAMABAD, March 5: Pakistan People’s Party on Monday categorically denied any deal with the regime and castigated the cabinet ministers for giving contradictory statements in this regard.

“They cannot make up their minds whether it is politically advantageous for them to say there has been an understanding with the PPP or to say that there has not been an understanding with the PPP,” Ms Naheed Khan MNA said in a statement here.

She however clarified for the sake of record that there was no agreement reached between the PPP and the regime. But the regime tries to give the impression of an understanding with a view to dividing the opposition before the forthcoming elections.

Then the regime finds the ground slipping under its feet as its members rush to have secret meetings with the PPP leadership to switch sides. To counter the collapse of their own party, which exists on the basis of the differences between the establishment and the PPP on the future direction of Pakistan as a democracy or a dictatorship, the Cabinet ministers try to save their officially created Party by denying their own disinformation of an understanding, she said.

With the multi-party conference (MPC) scheduled for March and the major parties busy in preparing the resolution of mutual consensus, the regime was frightened and was trying to put the best face forward, she said. She regretted that although PPP and PML-N both mutually decided under the compromise formula that Mohtarma Bhutto would not attend, the regime is trying to give its own spin on it.—Our Reporter