* PPP, ANP and MQM say conspiracy underway to promote fundamentalist parties in May 11 elections
* Appeal people to foil nefarious designs by voting them in
KARACHI: Three ‘moderate’ political parties on Wednesday have vowed to resist all conspiracies underway to restrain them from contesting polls and aimed at promoting fundamentalist parties in the May 11 general election.
They continued reiterating their stance against ‘conspiracies’ through their joint appearances at different venues.
Leaders of the three parties gathered at residence of ANP’s Senator Shahi Syed in the morning and later at the PPP’s Secretariat in the evening. Late on Tuesday, they had also gathered at the MQM Headquarters, Nine-Zero.
The three ‘enlightened’ parties repeatedly accused the ‘national and international establishments’ for supporting the plan of blocking the way of three progressive parties in the forthcoming polls. They urged the people of the country foil the conspiracies by coming out on May 11 and casting votes in their favour. They also welcomed the statement of army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, saying that the three parties had been expressing the same opinion.
Senator Shahi Syed said that terrorists had hijacked the May 11 election and “it appears that they are conducting the polls, not the caretaker government”. He said that the caretaker government and law enforcement agencies were not playing their roles. “It appears that elections are only being held in Punjab. It will be selection, not election,” the ANP leader said. Shahi Syed also urged religious scholars of the country to give edict against the actions of the TTP in light of Islam. He warned that people would not accept election results if the three progressive parties had not been provided a level playing field.
Speaking on the occasion, PPP leader Rehman Malik said it was no longer a secret which parties were with the Taliban and which were against them. The former interior minister said he had informed it much earlier that the TTP was developing franchises in the country, “and now it has been proven”. “The Taliban want to bring their own prime minister to accomplish the agenda of foreign elements,” he added.
Meanwhile, MQM’s Dr Farooq Sattar said that a conspiracy against the liberal and democratic forces was linked to the planned withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan. “The international establishment should take a decision carefully, as it also has to face consequences,” he said. He said that Quetta, Karachi and Peshawar had been made targets of terrorism, which would not be in the interest of the country.
He also said that terrorists were dictating their agenda, and it was not clear as to who exactly was organising the upcoming polls.
MQM’s Raza Haroon said that the three liberal parties were being restrained from contesting election. However, he added, the parties would contest the polls at any cost for the sake of democracy and the country. He said that parties who had adopted silence on terrorist attacks would have to face consequences of their ‘blunder’, if they came into power. The PPP’s Maula Bux Chandio, MQM’s Dr Saghir Ahmed and others also spoke on the occasion.
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