Pakistani nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan has warned the nation that its future would be bleak if they did not elect good people in the upcoming elections.
In an interview to a local Urdu newspaper, Dr AQ Khan said he would not contest the coming election
He said dictators and corrupt politicians had taken the country to the verge of destruction.
Khan said the Pakistani nation must give vote to those leaders who met the criteria given in the Articles 62 and 63 of the constitution of Pakistan.
The scientist, who heads Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz Pakistan (TTP), said if given power, his party would resist the upcoming government from any wrongdoing. He said virtuous people with uncontroversial background should be inducted in the law enforcement agencies so that they could stop the illegal activities.
He said his party would give tickets to its candidates from certain electoral constituencies and also support eligible candidates from other political parties.
Commenting on the printing of new nomination papers by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) without president’s approval, he said candidates who had nothing to hide or who were not involved in any illegal activity should not worry about the new forms.
However, he questioned the logic of printing extra ballot papers, saying printing 200 million ballot papers for 80 million registered voters was unnecessary.
He said that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) had a soft corner for General (r) Pervez Musharraf despite the fact that the former dictator was accused of murdering Benazir Bhutto, Akbar Bugti and innocent people in the Lal Masjid operation.
Dr Qadeer said the Muttahida Quami Movement should stop Musharraf from coming to Pakistan, as they did in the case of the chief justice on May 12, 2007.
Khan said the Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline project should have been initiated a year or two earlier. Meanwhile, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Syed Munawar Hassan has announced that his party would make alliance with Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan’s party to contest elections.
Addressing a public gathering on Sunday in Gujrat, Hassan said the JI stood for peaceful revolution and considered elections an initiation of positive change.
He said during the past five years of so-called democratic coalition government, the common man was totally neglected and only preferred people got benefits.
The JI chief said whoever came to power, he took dictation from the US administration in governing the country instead of chalking own policies and giving priority to national interests.
