QUETTA, July 8: Leader of Pakistan National Alliance (PNA), Sardar Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari, has said the alliance would strongly oppose any secret deal between President Musharraf and the two ousted prime ministers.
He was speaking at the workers convention of PNA here late on Sunday evening.
Other alliance leaders, including Ajmal Khan Khattak, also spoke on the occasion.
He denied that any secret deal had been reached between the government and former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, saying all such reports in this connection were baseless and part of a disinformation drive.
“We will be on the forefront in opposing the government if it entered into a secret deal with these leaders who had looted the wealth of our poor country,” Sardar Leghari said.
He claimed that Benazir Bhutto was the first leader to welcome the Musharraf government but now she was opposing the present regime as Gen Musharraf had refused to make any secret deal with her party.
He strongly criticized the role of ARD chief Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan and said that he was providing protection to the two big families who were involved in the loot and plunder of the national resources and were now enjoying life abroad.
Farooq Leghari, himself a former Pakistan president, advised President Musharraf to write a letter to US President Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, asking them to hand over of all those Pakistani leaders and other people to Pakistan, who were involved in massive corruption and were now living a cozy life in their countries
He said Balochistan was full of mineral resources but all the previous governments ignored it and did nothing for the exploration and exploitation of this wealth. He said the alliance would grant maximum provincial autonomy to the provinces after coming into power.
Mr Leghari said he did not believe in making compromises for coming into power. In future also, his party will not compromise on the democratic rights of the people of Pakistan just for getting power.
He said Gen Pervez Musharraf would hand over power to the elected representatives after conducting free and fair elections in October and the army will go back to the barracks. However, he said the alliance would not support the government’s proposed constitutional package as it believed in an independent, autonomous parliamentary system.
Ajmal Khattak said his party had supported Gen Musharraf as he promised that he would grant autonomy to the provinces and would implement the agenda he had unveiled after taking over reins of the government in October, 1999. Whether he kept that promise or not, only time will tell, he added.
He said: “We do not believe in deceiving anybody. We would not accept a democracy in which people had no say.”
Former Chief Minister Mir Taj Mohammad Jamali, Mohim Khan Baloch, Mir Israrullah Zehri, Mir Asadullah Baloch, Raziq Bugti and Azizullah Advocate also spoke.