PPP vows to resist putting off polls
By Asim Hussain

ISLAMABAD—Pakistan Peoples Party rejects any delay in January 8 elections, a party official said Monday after government and electoral officials said the vote would be postponed. “We are ready for elections and do not want any delay. We demand immediate elections and on January 8,” senior party official Shah Mahmood Qureshi told foreign news agency.
“The government should stick to the schedule. If the government delays the election, we will call a central executive committee meeting to decide our future course of action,” said Qureshi, a committee member. PPP Vice Chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim and Senator Safdar Abbasi on Monday stressed the need for deployment of Army to ensure free and fair polls in the country.
We will not allow delay in upcoming polls, PPP Vice Chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim expressed these views while talking to Journalists at Sukkur airport on Monday He said that we have appeal to PML (N) Chief Nawaz Sharif to withdraw his decision to boycott the polls, which he took in solidarity with the PPP. He asked the people to calm their nerves following a wave of shock and violence sparked by BB’s death. He said that PPP would be run as per wishes of late BB adding that it was the wish of Benazir Bhutto to participate in the elections adding that we will definitely participate in the upcoming polls.
He asked the masses to vote for PPP so that the unfinished mission of late BB can be completed and accomplished. He appealed to the masses to make PPP successful in upcoming polls and realize the dream of Mohatarma Benazir Bhutto.
On the other hand, PPP’s Safdar Abbasi while talking to foreign Media made it clear that PPP will not tolerate delay of any kind in January 8 polls. He said that if polls were delayed then PPP would thrash another strategy.
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has constituted a three-member committee to draft a resolution to be sent to the United Nations demanding setting up of an expert commission to probe into the Assassination of former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto.
The PPP sources told Online that the three members of the committee are Senator Latif Khoso, former Federal Minister, Begum Abida Hussein, and Ms Bhutto’s legal advisor, Senator Farooq H Naik. The committee will complete the draft of the resolution within a day or two, which will later be sent to UN, the sources said and added that the resolution will demand of the UN to constitute a team of international experts to investigate into the assassination of Ms Bhutto in line with the probe into murder of the slain Lebanese Premier Rafiq Al-Hariri.
They said resolution would comprise different letters written by Ms Bhutto to the government of Pakistan, President Pervz Musharraf, and some of her friends about her security concerns. Video tapes aired by various TV channels showing the assassination scenes will also be sent along with the resolution, the sources maintained.
In resolution, the sources say, the PPP would take a stand that it did not trust in any investigations to be held by Pakistani agencies because many inquiry commissions had been formed in past to probe into murder of various high profile personalities but till today, none of them had yielded any positive result.