Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senator Pervaiz Rasheed on Friday said his party had no shortage of candidates for general elections nor it has the need for support of any extremist group or to borrow its candidates.
In a press statement, Senator Rasheed said the PML-N was the country’s most popular political party and had candidates for every constituency to contest general elections. He said that due to a large number of candidates, the short listing was in the final stage. He said the party’s platform was already full and there was no room for more candidates. He said the PML-N had no need to make seat adjustment with any extremist party or sectarian group by disregarding its own candidates.
He said the PML-N, during its last and present tenure, had been determined in containing the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and had also arrested Malik Ishaq and other extremists. He said former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf did not show a serious attitude against the extremists and the elements involved in sectarian activities while some extremists were given bail by the courts due to weak prosecution or were acquitted by them.
He said that the Punjab government had never supported any group or organisation on the issue of sectarianism and had rather been firm in maintenance of inter-faith harmony.
