Zardari flays transfers and postings in Sindh: will document shown to provincial CEC, Council
The Will of slain chairperson of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Benazir Bhutto was shown to the members of Sindh Executive Committee and Sindh Council of PPP Sindh, held at Bhutto House Naudero on Sunday.
The meeting of Sindh Executive Committee and Sindh Council was held under the chairmanship of Co-Chairman of PPP Asif Ali Zardari, which was attended by President PPP Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah, district presidents, general secretaries of PPP across Sindh and members of Sindh Executive Committee and Sindh Council.
After the meeting, PPP leaders, President PPP Sanghar Sarfraz Rajar and President PPP Kamber-Shahdadkot Ghulam Mujtaba Isran told the newsmen that the Will of Benazir Bhutto written by herself in green ink was shown to all the participants of the meeting.However, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro said the Will was already disclosed in the first meeting of CEC of PPP, so there is no issue about the Will. He added that this meeting was also an introduction meeting, as during the previous Sindh Council meeting Asif Ali Zardari was not present.
He said during this meeting the details about workers, whose names have been nominated in FIRs across Sindh were also taken up by Asif Ali Zardari, adding that more than six lacs people have been nominated in false FIRs.
Terming it a conspiracy against PPP in the elections he said these arrests will be exploited by the government during the election, besides despite the ban on transfers, the government is making transfers of officials all over Sindh, which is also part of rigging as well as inefficiency of the government, for government has as well confessed its inefficiency.
He further said it was decided during the meeting that except the three days of Ashura (mourning) all the leaders were given instructions to develop their contacts with the people and prepare themselves for the upcoming elections.
PPP's Aftab Shaban Mirani, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Jamil Soomro, Agha Siraj Durani besides other leaders were present on the ocassion. NNI adds: PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said the recent terrorist attacks in the country are part of efforts to rig or postpone next month's Parliamentary polls. "I consider (the attacks) a part of the rigging campaign. I consider this part of the harassment campaign so that people would not come out in mass numbers to vote," he told Voice of America.
"This is a way of again diverting people's attention and trying to either postpone the elections or making sure that the (ruling PML-Q) wins," he said.
Zardari said the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), of which he is the co- Chairman, was yet to decide on a prime ministerial candidate or on the issue of forming a government with PML-N after the February 18 general election.
"I am not running personally for the National Assembly. The Constitution of Pakistan says only a member of the National Assembly can become the prime minister," he said. The PPP will decide on a prime minister candidate "when the time comes and when we win the election." "At the moment, we have Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto as our candidate for prime ministership."
Asked about forming a government PML-N Zardari said, "the PPP is hoping to come to power and have a national consensus government. It's too premature to talk about right now but it is already a foregone conclusion that the PPP in its collective wisdom intends to make a national consensus government."
Zardari said he was in touch with Sharif regularly to discuss political developments and the stands their parties should take on various issues.
He also said the PPP did not "trust" the probe being conducted into Benazir's assassination by the Pakistan government with the help of Britain's Scotland Yard. "We respect Scotland Yard but it is under the supervision of the Pakistan government whom we do not trust in this investigation."
Zardari said the top leadership of the PPP had decided to appoint 19 year-old Bilawal as new chairman of the party. "I did not name him. The whole central executive committee named him. All of the colleagues of my late wife named him.
Zardari admitted that the legacy of the Bhutto family had influenced the PPP's decision. "I would not say that the Bhutto name does not carry its weight. Of course, it does. But people in the West do not understand the politics of South Asia and the sacrifice that each family has given, whether it's the Indira Gandhi family, the Nehru family or the Bandaranaike family or the Bangladesh families in politics," he said.
Asked if he feared for his life, he said: "We have the lesson of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto in front of us. She was never afraid for her life. If one has to sit in her chair, one cannot afford to be scared for one's life."
Reacting to concerns expressed by the world community about the safety of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, he said, "I think the world should be concerned about Pakistan itself, of the balkanisation of Pakistan and everything that is within it, not just one exclusive item.
"I think the whole of Pakistan, the nation of 175 million people, needs to be looked after. We need to be assisted, we need to be helped, we need to be cared for. I am worried for Pakistan, therefore we have been fighting for democracy." Zardari also said: "We are feared Pakistan will break up."
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