Islamabad, Sept 5 : Members of National Assembly (MNAs) from FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) last evening met PPP Co-chairman and presidential hopeful Asif Ali Zardari and asked him to immediately stop the military operation in the Tribal Areas, else, they threatened, they would quit the ruling coalition.
“We are so disappointed with this government that we will not support Asif Zardari. We might quit the coalition if the government doesn’t review its habit of lying,” the Daily Times quoted FATA members’ parliamentary leader Munir Orakzai, as saying.
He said the government had not kept its word of suspending the military operation during Ramazan.
Islamabad, Sept. 5: Pakistan is set for a return to the politics of revenge, retribution and blatant self-interest that bedeviled it in the 1990s, as the country prepares for Saturday’s presidential poll.
Islamabad, Sept 5 : PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari is all set to assume Presidency after tomorrow’s poll, but it is yet to be seen how forcefully he will act against militants in the face of Pakistani public opposition to American pressure. Nor is it clear how much influence he exerts over the still powerful military and the nation’s premier spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, said an editorial in the New York Times.
PPP Co-chairman and presidential hopeful Asif Ali Zardari, who is expected to win tomorrow’s presidential poll, will embark on his first ever visit as the head of the state to China on September 9.
The PPP has decided in principle not to reinstate the deposed Supreme Court chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and his fellow judges to the pre-Nov 3 position, and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has been duly informed in this regard, said party spokesman Farhatullah Babar here last evening.
