ISLAMABAD—Afghan president Hamid Karzai had remained associated with Taliban and Osama bin Laden, and still has good feelings for them, claimed Hafiz Hussain Ahmad, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal central leader.
“Karzai is still with Taliban but he is acting like a hypocrite in current circumstances,” Hafiz Hussain told reporters outside Parliament House on Tuesday. The MMA leader said Karzai could not restore peace and stability in Afghanistan despite US-led coalition forces’ support.
He said Afghan president’s rule was limited to Kabul. “Karzai only rules Kabul and he has no control over other parts of the violence-stricken country”, he said. Hafiz Hussain said ‘duplicity’ of Karzai like characters was behind the law and order crisis in Afghanistan. He said Karzai was trying to ‘pass the buck’ to Islamabad to deceive the world about his failure to maintain law and order.
Earlier Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) has declared Awan-e-Sadre responsible for rigging in recent local bodies polls and sought immediate resignation of President General Pervez Musharraf. Addressing a press conference here at Parliament House cafeteria on Tuesday, MMA MNAs Abdul Sattar Afghani, Muhammad Laeq Khan and Hussain Mehnti said that government should declare local council elections in Punjab and Sindh null and void. “Local government elections created disappointment and aversion among the masses and strengthened dictatorship rather than democracy in the country” , they maintained. MMA lawmakers went on to say that political parties also announced dislike for local bodies elections.
They said that rigging in LB poll must be probed and punishment should be awarded to those who are responsible for it (rigging). MMA MNAs observed Army has lost its credibility owing to current local government elections, they said. They said government institutions have also lost their value and people are not expecting justice from judiciary. MMA legislators said new election commission should be appointed and country’s leadership should resign prior to general elections Caretaker government should supervise the upcoming general elections, they added.—Agencies