ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique on Tuesday said Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari was pursuing some hidden agenda, and even his own party regretted his actions.
While talking to media in front of the Accountability Court in Islamabad, the minister said PPP leadership’s statements about census and delimitation were regrettable.
“They should raise objections on the basis of solid argument and concrete evidence,” Saad Rafique said.
Saad Rafique said it was beyond perception as to why PPP was shying away from legislation on the subject.
“If there could have been any objection, it might have come from our party because seats are being reduced from our majority province Punjab and not from other provinces,” he said.
The minister said population census was carried out in collaboration with different state institutions including Pakistan army. Then why people were raising objections on this process, he asked.
The railways minister said in Nawaz Sharif case he had not been seeing any accountability rather it seemed like a reprisal.
“It is not happening for the first time with political leadership in the country. We do not understand the motives for all this except weakening democracy in the Country,” the minister said.
The minister mentioned to an opponent party that demanded early elections but later backed out of its demand, and said this party perhaps didn’t know that how new elections could be held without fulfilling requirements of census.
Saad Rafique said the political parties should have not hampered this process because following census, delimitation would be an important step towards next general elections.
The minister said it was utmost endeavor of the government to bring all political parties on one page for respective legislation, and those parties creating hindrances had no justification.
