KARACHI – The PML-N wants to indulge in the politics of the 90s, but the PPP will not follow suit, President Asif Ali Zardari said on Monday. “The PPP is a democratic party and will face all such tactics politically,” Zardari told Punjab Governor Latif Khosa and Interior Minister Rehman Malik in a meeting at the Bilawal House. According to sources in the PPP, various other issues such as the progress of development projects, rebuilding of the flood-damaged infrastructure and the prevailing law and order in the province were discussed in the meeting.
The president told the governor that during his visit to Japan last week, he had sought Japanese assistance in rebuilding roads and bridges in Punjab that had been destroyed in the flooding last year. Malik briefed the president on the law and order in the country.
Earlier talking to reporters, the interior minister said no deadlines were mentioned in the Charter of Democracy, adding that the government was following former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s policy of reconciliation despite the fact that President Zardari had been tortured during the PML-N government.
Malik said the PPP government could have sent many people to jail, and started accountability on the pattern of Saifur Rehman, but it did not because of its reconciliatory politics. He said people had given a five-year mandate to the government, adding that “nobody should work to destabilise democracy”.
