PPP, Nawaz League playing fixed match: Saad Rizvi

Karachi: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) are playing a fixed election match but the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) will not allow them continue with it.

TLP chief Hafiz Saad Rizvi said this on Sunday as he addressed a public meeting of the party in connection with the coming general elections at the Bagh-e-Jinnah on Sunday evening.

A large number of TLP supporters were in attendance at the public meeting. Addressing them, Rizvi said various parties had been withdrawing their candidates against one another across the country, which suggested that they were playing a fixed match. He asserted that the TLP would not allow anyone to fix the electoral results before balloting.

The TLP chief asked the youth of Karachi to play a positive role for the country’s development. He said that if the people of Karachi abstained from voting this time, the oppressors would again get power.

He was of the view that one could not have hopes with those parties that had failed to improve the condition of Karachi in the last 30 years.

People of Karachi had been deceived in the name of linguistic identity but they would not be deceived this time, he said.

He asked why the agreements made with the International Monetary Fund had not been publicly disclosed. He said the Muslim identity was a bigger identity than any linguistic identity.

He promised that if the TLP came into power, it would form a system free of usury and corruption and lead the country to the path of progress.