Nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan is launching a 100-day campaign to end corruption and urges voters to elect "clean and honest" candidates in polls next year, a senior party official said Monday. Tehreek-e-Tahafuzz Pakistan or Save Pakistan Movement (SPM), announced in July, will contest general elections due in 2013, secretary general Chaudhry Khurshid Zaman told a press conference in Islamabad.
Abdul Qadeer Khan, would not be a candidate for any public office and would guide the movement as its chairman, Zaman said. Zaman said from Tuesday Khan would kick off his 100-day campaign during which he will address bar associations, universities students, chambers of commerce and industries across Pakistan.
The starting point would be the town of Kahuta where Khan will address the local bar association, Zaman said. "We urge the Pakistanis, particularly youth, to elect clean and honest people in coming elections, because the parties who are in power now or were in the past are responsible for the mess in which Pakistan is today, Zaman said.