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Friday, November 20, 2009
Syed Bukhar Shah
PESHAWAR: Three leaders of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) NWFP said here Thursday that they were not opposed to the leadership but wanted to revive the party according to the manifesto of their leaders, late ZA Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto.
The provincial leaders of the so-called dissident group — Syed Ayub Shah, Waheed Afzal Golra and Noor Mohammad Mohmand — said they held a meeting in Peshawar but did not discuss any point against party central and provincial leadership.
“We had reposed confidence in the leadership of our party’s co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari and Provincial President Syed Zahir Ali Shah but the report published in a section of the Press gave an impression as if it was an anti-party leadership meeting,” they said.
Syed Ayub Shah also claimed the meeting participants had never mentioned the “corruption” of their party ministers but had generally discussed the corruption in the society and in all the institutions. “All party ministers are not corrupt but some of them could be,” he said without naming any corrupt minister.
He said the meeting had never demanded creation of 20,000 jobs for their workers and raised any issue about internally displaced persons. He said none of the participants mentioned the name of their party leader Faryal Talpur and Raza Rabbani. “We had not discussed launch of the protest movement against the party, particularly in Islamabad, but proposed a convention, which we had already discussed with our president,” he said.
Syed Ayub Shah said their team wanted to bring reforms and promote a democratic culture. “We are the major political party and want to run the affairs within the party through mutual consultation. We also want a right man for the right job and want writ of the government, good governance,” he said.
Meanwhile, PPP Malakand Division President Dr Afsarul Mulk also clarified that he had not spoken against the party leaders in a recent meeting of the PPP dissidents. He said he attended the meeting but spoke in favour of the party and its leaders and did not utter any negative remark. He said no committee had been formed for any purpose. Vowing to probe the matter, he said he would get to know who was after him and the party by launching a defamation campaign.
Some party workers, however, mocked the claims of leaders, saying the clarification proved that they could not sustain the pressure of party high command. What was the need of organising such a big meeting and invite the office-bearers from throughout the province, said a worker who wishing anonymity.
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