ISLAMABAD: The Jamiat Ulema e Islam – Fazal (JUI-F) Senator,
Hafiz Hamdullah said Tuesday of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) is just
as alive without the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) as it was with it, after
the controversy entailing PPP leader Qamar Zaman Kaira’s statement.
Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) is functional with or without PPP,
Senator Hamdullah said in a press conference Tuesday and noted that it was
the PPP that stabbed the alliance in the back.
Hamdullah said the PPP leadership is trying to play on both sides of the
fence. They are trying to get two rides in a single ticket. PPP is opposing
the opposition, he said.
It was the PPP that prevailed its Senate candidate at the expense of JUI-F’s
candidate and still they manage to be critical of the opposition.
However, he said PPP must reach out to the PDM leadership and mend the
fences should it want back in the opposition alliance.
Earlier in the day, Pakistan Peoples’ Party Punjab senior leader Qamar Zaman Kaira had said that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) must end backdoor contacts with the establishment if it wants rule of constitution.
Talking to media in Lahore on Tuesday, he said that the PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif should bring his party back on his ideology.
The PPP leader said that PDM was practically no more claiming that the PPP was in the PDM. “As long as we were in PDM, there was life in it,” he said. “We want new election laws to be made by consensus,” he said.
Kaira went on to say that the government itself is acknowledging its failures.
