F.P. Report
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Information & Local Government Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has said that long march was not conditional to anything including resignations from assemblies and added that option of long march is still available. The Minister added that PDM is intact and all parties of the PDM were united on one-point agenda to get rid the country from incompetent PTI government.
The Minister while addressing press conference along with PPP MAN Agha Rafiullah at Karachi Press Club stated that PDM movement will surely attain its goals. Syed Nasir Hussain Shah clarified that PDM is united and Pakistan Peoples Party is Part of it and they will work together. The Minister said that Sindh Government and resignations were not obstacle in the struggle for democracy and added that PTI would get walk over if option of resignation from assemblies was exercised. He added that it would be one way traffic for PTI and they could easily role back 18th amendment.
The minister counting the achievements of PDM said that on the suggestion of President Asif Ali Zardari and Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the PDM won bye-elections in four provinces. The PDM coalition also performed well in the Senate elections. Later, on the Chairman Senate slot joint candidate of PDM Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani got 48 votes but the presiding officer gave illegal and impartial ruling and rejected the correct vote of our candidate. He said that constitutionally and legally, the Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani is Chairman Senate.
“We thought that all the achievements would be appreciated in yesterday’s PDM meeting,” he said and added that there was no such thing as resignation before the long march. He added that Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Maryam Nawaz were respectable for us.
The Minister said that the Election Commission of Pakistan is a respectful state institution adding that the Prime Minister himself has praised the Election Commission on many occasions in the past. “I strongly condemn the manner in which the Federal Ministers are harassing the Election Commission. He said that the ruling party was defeated in all the four provinces in the bye-elections and the people rejected them due to their incompetence. Twenty polling officers were picked up in Daska. When the civil society and media raised the issue, the Election Commission took notice of irregularities in the Daska election and announced re-election.
He said that when the decisions were not taken as per the intention of the Federal Government, the Federal Ministers started attacks on the Election Commission. The Minister said that the foreign funding case is the biggest threat to PTI.
