5 March 2007: Pakistan Peoples Party has said that the Cabinet ministers were giving contradictory statements on whether there is a deal with the PPP. They cannot make up their minds whether it is politically advantageous for them to say there has been an understanding with the PPP or to say that there has not been an understanding with the PPP.
In a statement today Ms Naheed Khan MNA said that for the record there is no agreement reached between the PPP and the regime. However, every now and then the regime tries to give the impression of an understanding with a view to divide the Opposition before the forthcoming elections.
Then the regime finds the ground slipping under its feet as its members rush to have secret meetings with the PPP leadership to switch sides. To counter the collapse of their own party, which exists on the basis of the differences between the establishment and the PPP on the future direction of Pakistan as a democracy or a dictatorship, the Cabinet ministers try to save their officially created Party by denying their own disinformation of an understanding, she said.
With the APC meeting scheduled for March and the major parties busy in preparing the resolution of mutual consensus, the regime is frightened and is trying to put the best face forward, she said.
Although PPP and PML N both mutually decided under the compromise formula that Mohtarma Bhutto would not attend, the regime is trying to give its own spin on it.
The PPP has already stated that Mohtarma Bhutto, amongst other reasons, was unwilling to sit with the members of the military regime. The MMA is a part of the regime in Balochistan where it is in coalition government with PML Q.
However, the Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, who used to train Jihadists at government property in Tarnol has tried to mislead the people by insinuating falsely that Mohtarma is not personally attending the APC in London due to "negotiations". She asked Shaikh Rashid to return that land to the Government.
The PPP said that it was not for Shaikh Rashid to decide who would be the next Prime Minister of Pakistan. It was for the people of Pakistan to decide who would lead them. Moreover, Mohtarma Bhutto was struggling for the rights of the people including providing them jobs, electricity, education, roads, drinking water, health facilities and better opportunities to lead a life of respect and dignity. She was not struggling for power. However, it is another matter if the people of Pakistan wish their sister to be the Prime Minister of the country. In that event no amount of amendments by dictators would be an obstacle in her path.
Naheed Khan also ridiculed Shaikh Rashid's claim for building an expressway over Nallah Lai in Rawalpindi. She said that funds for Nallah Lai had already been sanctioned in the PPP government one decade back but the project had been cancelled when the PPP government was overthrown.
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