Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) will launch a decisive movement and it would be a final round after Eid-ul-Azha to get rid of Pervez Musharraf in 2005, formation of a caretaker set-up of National consensus to hold free, transparent and fair elections of international standard in the country, said Nawabzada Mansoor Ahmed, acting president of ARD and Chief of Pakistan Democratic Party while addressing a press conference on Tuesday along with Shaikh Muhammad Aslam, Sahibzada Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, Rehmatullah Khan and Masood Saqib Gujjar. He said this movement would mobilise the masses against the government and bring a populated government into power, allowing the political leadership to come back to home.
A grand alliance of opposition parties is expected after Eid-ul-Azha to oust General Pervez Musharraf from power because Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) leadership has gone to Saudi Arabia for performing Haj.
However, it would take sometime because both the MMA and ARD had some reservations on 17th amendment, uniform, and elections in 2005. He said that statement of Natwar Singh about Pakistani armed forces is an eye opener for patriotic force that now Pakistan army cannot attack India because it became a businessman. Nawabzada said that our 80 percent airstrips including Mianwali, Rajanpur, Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan air bases are in the control of Americans and they were constructing their colonies in Jacobabad and other areas.
He said that a delegation of ARD visited the Balochistan and met the Baloch leaders who narrated their grievances and said that we cannot talk to a ruler whose tutor is United States, who had destroyed all institutions like judiciary, parliament, armed forces. President General Pervez Musharraf was using harsh language about his countrymen in Balochistan while he is lip tightened against India which was building a Baglihar Dam which would turn Pakistan into a barren desert.
Nawabzada said that Pakistan is the only country in the world where no constitution, no constitutional president, no Chief of Army Staff.
He said that present regime failed to fulfil its responsibilities regarding maintaining law and order situation, providing jobs and ending unemployment, ending poverty and price hike.
Now people have forced to commit collective suicides, target killing, serial killings, bomb blasts and sectarian strife were the gifts of current dictatorial rule.
Armed forces were being used against the Pakistani nation, troops were deployed in ten out of 26 district of Balochistan, not less than 50 percent people are living below the poverty line, meat and poultry has gone beyond the reach of common man, even sugar is selling at Rs 25 per kg. Petroleum prices have also gone high sky, sense of insecurity was developed and no President of Pakistan, Prime Minister and Corps commanders were not even safe while Islamic punishments and provisions were being ridiculed and country was pushing toward secularism.