Former Punjab Governor and a leader of Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarian (PPPP) Malik Ghulam Mustafa Khar on Friday expressed the apprehension that President General Pervez Musharraf after his re-election as President from the sitting assemblies would not hold general elections in the country.
Khar told reporters that people who were behind Benazir-Musharraf meeting had become disappointed from Benazir's attitude and now there was a possibility that this deal might not be accomplished. He claimed that these people were now talking that Benazir Bhutto was not reliable. Nevertheless, deal between Musharraf and Benazir would be unnatural.
He further said that after a meeting between Musharraf and Benazir in Dubai, vote bank of the PPPP had curtailed by 75 percent in the urban areas of the country.
Khar asked his party's chairperson to tender an apology from the nation and abstain from striking a deal or giving political cushion to Pervez Musharraf. Khar was of the view that the ministers and legislators of PML-Q who would vote for Musharraf in his re-election would commit high treason and would have to pay heavy political price of this blunder.
Talking about PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif, the PPPP leader said that he had close relations with him and he was practising politics in the larger national interests. If Benazir strikes a deal with Musharraf, her party activists who had commitment with Z.A Bhutto would join hands with Nawaz Sharif who was waging a just struggle in the country's interests, Khar added. When asked that Nawaz Sharif was sent to Saudi Arabia after an agreement with the government, Khar said Pakistan and Saudi Arabia had brotherly relations and these relations are time tested, hence Saudi rulers should not become a party to stop Nawaz Sharif's return.