Pakistan People’s Party Core Committee deliberates on the current situation in Pakistan

Karachi, April 07, 2023 (PPI-OT): A meeting of the core committee of the PPP was held Thursday evening in Zardari House Islamabad presided over by President PPPP Mr. Asif Ali Zardari and Chairman PPP Mr. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and attend by the following. Yousuf Raza Gillani, Nayyer Bukhari, Naveed Qamar, Raza Rabbani, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Sherry Rehman, CM Sindh Murad Ali Shah, Shazia Marri, Nisar Khuro, Muhammad Ali Shah Bacha, Humayun Khan, Faisal Karim Kundi, Akhunzada Chattan and Farhatullah Babar.

In a statement secretary general of the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians Farhatullah Babar said that the meeting stressed that shutting the door dialogue is not the solution. For this purpose, the Party decided to approach all the parties in the coalition government for taking a joint position on the issue of dialogue among the political parties. The Party said that the crisis was the result of numerous reasons not the least of which is the insistence that minority verdict should take precedence over the majority court verdict. This position is untenable legally, morally and politically and needs to be reviewed.

He said that the meeting also of the view that it was imperative that the honor and prestige of the judiciary was not allowed to be impaired in any way. To achieve this, it is essential that numerous apparently conflicting verdicts of the Honourable Court are resolved expeditiously. The Party believes that in the interest of fair and free elections general elections to all assemblies be held on the same day on a date provided for the in the Constitution. The Party reiterated that it will not countenance any delay in the holding of elections beyond the mandate date in the Constitution, he said.

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