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| Qazi and ARD still bitching about the referendumb... |
| 2002-05-05 |
| The Alliance for Restoration of Democracy, and Jamaat-i-Islami have separately decided here on Saturday to publish white papers on the irregularities allegedly committed by the government and the Election Commission to get President Musharraf elected for a fresh term of five years. Nothing unexpected here... The ARD took the decision of publishing a white paper at a meeting of the heads of its component parties here at the PPP Central Secretariat. However, Jamaat's plan of preparing a white paper were made public by Qazi Hussain Ahmed at a separate press conference. Our guess is that both white papers were drawn up by the same people. The heads of alliance's component parties which met at the central secretariat of Pakistan People's Party, termed the referendum as a "farce" and demanded resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) for giving a certificate of legality to the referendum "fraud." It ain't gonna happen, no matter how much you harp on it... The ARD leaders also demanded that a government of national consensus should be set up and an autonomous and independent election commission should be constituted for ensuring free, fair and impartial elections. Perv won. He's not going to put the opposition in charge. That idea can't even make any sense to religious loons. "The ARD expresses its total lack of confidence in the election commission and demands that a new independent and impartial election commission should be constituted in consultation with the major political parties to ensure its acceptability as an impartial body," said a resolution adopted at the meeting. Yeah. Send him a memo. At a news briefing later conducted jointly at PPP secretariat, ARD leaders expressed serious doubts about holding of fair, free and impartial elections under the present government and election commission which they said had enacted the drama of referendum. They're really ticked because Perv's guys got to stuff the ballot boxes instead of them. If he's gonna be president for five years, PPP and the Nawaz faction can't expect to be allowed at the graft for at least that long. And Qazi's not gonna get to be khalif for at least that long, and he's getting on in years. The referendumb was a disaster for them. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |