PESHAWAR, June 24: The People’s Party Parliamentarian has accused the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani of using unfair means to rig the district nazim’s election in Dera Ismail Khan.

Addressing a press conference here at the Peshawar Press on Sunday, PPP’s coordinator Faisal Karim Kundi, district nazim candidate Amanul Haq Ghaznikhel, Fareed Khan Toofan and Nawaz Khan, nawab of Dera Ismail Khan, said Maulana Fazl got the election postponed on the pretext of deteriorating law and order situation. They said that Maulana Fazl wanted to win the election at all cost, adding that he had started horse-trading in the district. They said that Maulana’s maternal uncle, Abdur Rauf, could not win the elections.

They said if the bye-elections for two national assembly seats in Bajaur and Bannu could be held, why not in Dear Ismail Khan.

Fareed Toofan claimed that secret agencies were behind the resurgence of so-called Taliban in the region to ‘engineer’ another electoral victory for the MMA.

They demanded of the Election Commission to order early holding of nazim’s election in D. I. Khan as there was no law and order problem in the district.