Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz demands Asif Ali Zardari quit PPP to become president
Local Sunday, August 31st, 2008The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Saturday demanded Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari quit his party office if elected president on September 6.
“The president should always be non-partisan, but the Presidency will again become abode of a political party if Zardari is elected president,” PML-N Information Secretary Ahsan Iqbal told a press conference on Saturday. Ahsan said former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf had been running affairs of the PML-Quaid (PML-Q).
“The dignity of the office of president needs to be restored,” he said. PPP slammed: Iqbal reacted strongly to what he called a “well-organised media campaign by the PPP to malign PML-N presidential candidate Justice (r) Saeeduz Zaman Siddiqui”. He said the PPP should avoid such campaigns.
The PML-N leader said there were around 3,000 international media reports against Zardari but the PML-N had never issued any statement against him. Responding to former chief justice Sajjad Ali Shah comments on Friday about the PML-N role in the 1997 judicial crisis, Ahsan said Shah had been a party in the issue and therefore his statements were worthless.
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