Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) Information Secretary Ahsan Iqbal accused President General Pervez Musharraf of promoting politics of opportunism by patronising the ruling Pakistan Muslim League.
He charged during a news conference that Musharraf was politicising the constitutional offices of the President and the Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) by patronising ruling PML, which symbolised politics of opportunism and changing loyalty.
"A majority of people has no doubt that under General Musharraf, there is not an iota of chance for fair and free election because without rigging the next election, he stands no chance of getting himself re-elected as President while the federation is likely to come under severe pressure in case of rigging.
Therefore, he believed, General Musharraf's agenda and Pakistan's interests are at conflict. The PML-N will neither make any compromise on its principled stand and nor accept the turncoats into its fold.
The fundamental question is whether Pakistan will emerge after the elections as a democratic state as envisioned by Quaid-e-Azam or as a garrison state as envisioned by General Musharraf, he said.
"There is no danger of Pakistan becoming a theocratic state. The fundamental question is, whether the military will continue to rule it directly or indirectly," he observed.
The PML-N leader charged that the nation had been denied by its military establishment the right to change regime through ballots for the last 59 years while people in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have exercised their rights several times.
If military in India, US, or any European country wanted to derail democracy, it could do so, but the military leadership in those democratic nations does realise that the cost of military intervention destroys the foundations of national institutions.
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