Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri has expressed hope that Pakistan Muslim League will form governments in four provinces and the Centre. He said he was confident that PML-Q would secure overwhelming majority in the next general elections.
He expressed these views while addressing the inaugural ceremony of his election office at Ilahabad in District Kasur at a mammoth public gathering. He said that PML-Q, in its five-year tenure, had accomplished record development projects, put the country on the track of development, and had brightened the name of Pakistan in the comity of nations. The former foreign minister called upon the opposition parties to quit rhetoric of boycotting the election and start preparations for contesting the elections.
He said that the parties, "which are threatening to boycott the elections, do not enjoy the support of the masses and are engaged in blackmailing the interim government to obtain their vested interests". He said that these parties would gauge their popularity among the people in the elections.
He said that previously President Pervez Musharraf had held fair, free and crystal elections, in which the anti-government parties had succeeded. Likewise, the fair and free elections will also be held this time.
Khurshid said that he had materialised all promises made with the masses, including supply of Sui gas to his constituency, electrification of 9,000 villages and the dualisation of Kasur-Deepalpur Road at a cost of Rs 800 million.