Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Ahsan Iqbal has said the allegations levelled by MQM chief Altaf Hussain was ample proof that the Pakistan People’s Party was betraying democracy and its national reconciliation policy was a mere facade. “A coalition partner of the PPP has accused it of rigging elections in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and destroying democratic traditions. It proves our contention over which we left the government, the PPP has been betraying democracy from the very beginning,” Ahsan said in his reaction to Altaf’s address.
He said the PPP was hell-bent on winning elections at the cost of morals and democratic norms. Ahsan said the reconciliatory policy of the PPP was mere a facade and it was using it as slogan to dupe the people. ANP Senator Haji Adeel said election had been postponed by the AJK Election Commission and the government had nothing to do with it. He said the polls were postponed in three constituencies, not in AJK mainland and the MQM should have proven its claim of its presence in Azad Kashmir instead of boycotting the polls.
“The MQM has destroyed peace in Karachi as incidents of target killings are taking place there everyday. How was an election possible under such circumstances?” Adeel said. MQM spokesman Wasay Jalil said Altaf had demanded fresh polling as the present election had become doubtful and unacceptable. PPP Information Secretary Qamar Zamman Kaira said he had not heard Altaf’s address and could not comment on the speech.