President Asif Ali Zardari has asked MPAs of Pakistan People’s Party to spread the message of reconciliation in every nook and corner of Pakistan in the coming elections as envisaged by Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto.
Addressing the members of the Sindh Assembly during a marathon interactive session at Bilawal House here Thursday, the President who is also the Co-chairman of PPP said that the party wanted to promote love and not hatred.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Sindh Assembly Speaker Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Deputy Speaker Ms Shehla Raza and provincial ministers were also present on the occasion.
After attending the meeting, Sindh Information Minister Shazia Marri told media that President Zardari had said that PPP had always respected the mandate of the people and, therefore, holds the coalition partners, including MQM, PML-F, National People’s Party and ANP in high esteem.
He informed the legislators that the procedures of issuing computerised national identity cards (CNICs) has been improved to ensure transparency in the forthcoming elections in the country so that one man could cast one vote only.
The president maintained that PPP was a party of the federation and feels the pain of every citizen in every province, whether it be the people of Balochistan, southern Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa or Gilgit-Baltistan.
Referring to the ongoing conspiracies against the elected government, the president said that since day one, PPP had been facing the conspiracies being hatched by the anti-democratic forces, but the party had always tried to strengthen the democratic system in the country despite these challenges, whether it was NFC, restoration of 1973 Constitution, giving identity to KPK or Gilgit-Baltistan or raising voice for the rights of people of Balochistan and southern Punjab.
President asked the MPAs to go to their constituencies and reach out to people and solve their problems.
Talking of the current energy crisis in the country, President Zardari said that this issue would be resolved in next few months with the support and suggestions of coalition partners.
Shazia Marri said the president also referred to the ongoing propaganda in the country and commented that PML-N was dreaming of coming into power through non-democratic means.
She said the president had also said when the PPP raised voice for carving out a southern province in Punjab, PML leader Nawaz Sharif did not like it.
Marri said that Sindh PPP’s MPAs also raised issues of their constituencies and gave suggestions for their solution.
PPP, PML-F enter seat-adjustment formula
The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) raeched an election alliance and agreed on a seat-adjustment formula on Thursday. President Asif Ali Zardari hosted a luncheon in the honour of spiritual leader of Hurs, Pir of Pagara, at Bilawal House. The two leaders took stock of the overall political situation in the country. They settled on not fielding their candidates against each other. On this occasion, Pir Pagara thanked President Zardari for granting a Senate seat to Muzaffar Ali Shah.
