PPP-government contact for providing honorable way back to military

Opposition leader in Senate and Deputy Secretary General Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Mian Raza Rabbani, has said that PPP-government contacts were aimed at to provide honorable way back the military to barracks, but the government wanted to divide opposition by spreading deal ‘rumors’.
Addressing a press conference here at the chamber of opposition leader in Sindh Assembly, he said that PPP-government contacts were nothing new and these contact were aimed at to provide a safe passage for army to barracks from politics.
“But, the government, by propagating about the so-called deal wanted to create rift among opposition ranks,” he alleged.
He said that Benazir needed neither to strike deal nor any one’s permission for returning to the country.
“There may be ideological differences between PPP and MMA, but at present all the opposition parties were moving towards a common goal of independence of judiciary, getting rid of incumbent military dictatorship, supremacy of parliament and for holding a free and fair election under a caretaker setup”, he asserted.
Rabbani asked the president either own up the responsibility of Steel Mill’s privatization and other ‘scandals’ including current judicial crisis or accept that Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz had bypassed him in all these matters.
He termed the incumbent setup as a government of ‘looters’ and ‘plunderers’.
“If there would have been any minister of ‘good’ character then he must resign over the PSM issue”, he remarked.
He claimed that the reference against the CJP was an attempt to avenge from him for his decision in PSM privatization.
He asked Prime Minister to tell the nation as who is responsible for the ‘corruption’ and ‘irregularities’ committed in PMS and KESC privatisation, procurement of railway carriages, stock market crash and other ‘scandals’.
He alleged that by appointing Zafar A. Kahn as managing director PIA the regime has started preparations to privatise the national airline.
Raza Rabbani announced that PPP would restore trade unions and abolish all anti-labourers’ laws including the IRO after coming into power.
He said that the incumbent rulers are feudal and capitalists and representing the international imperialists.
“The rulers have rendered more than seven lakh workers jobless just to appease the imperialist forces”, he charged.
Opposition leader in Sindh Assembly Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, PPP leaders, Taj Haider, Rafique Engineer, Rashid Rabbani, and others were also present on the occasion.
Courtesy: OLN