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| JUI-F to seize govt vehicles being used in poll campaigns |
| 2008-01-26 |
| Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) provincial chief Senator Gul Naseeb Khan asked Muttahidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) activists on Friday to seize official vehicles being used by government-backed candidates in their election campaigns. “We don’t guarantee the safety of official vehicles being used by the government’s favoured candidates,” he told a press conference at the Peshawar Press Club. He said candidates of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), Pakistan People’s Party-Sherpao (PPP-S) and the Awami National Party (ANP) were using government resources in their campaigns. “We have repeatedly complained to the Election Commission,” he said, “but in vain.” The JUI-F leader said the caretaker government had given outstanding Annual Development Programme (ADP) funds to former provincial assembly members, who he said were spending the funds through tehsil municipal officers and district coordination officers to attract voters. He said former federal minister and PML-Q leader Amir Muqam was using WAPDA to solicit voters. “The coming elections will not be fair because the caretaker governments are biased,” said the JUI-F leader, who is also the provincial president of the MMA. Pakistan, he said, might “fall into wrong hands” if the February elections were not fair. Gul Naseeb said the US and the West wanted “to impose their obscene cultures on the people of Pakistan” through secular political forces. He said his party’s workers should foil the conspiracy. He said the ongoing military operation in Waziristan was a plot to divide the country. |
| Posted by:Fred |