Pakistan People’s Party President Makhdoom Amin Fahim said on Friday his party would neither support the re-election of President Pervez Musharraf nor resign from the assemblies. Any attempt to postpone the elections will be foiled, Fahim told a press conference in New Jersey. “We will fight against the dictatorship and foil all attempts to postpone the general elections,” he added. He said all citizens of Pakistan of above 18 years had the right to vote as per Constitution. About an opposition’s all parties conference, Fahim, who also heads the ARD, said the conference should conveyed a message to the nation that it should not accept any army general again. The PPP leader said, “All military rulers from Gen Ayub Khan to President Musharraf have destroyed national institutions.”
He said the history have shown that whenever an army general comes to power he had attacked the judiciary. “But now the judiciary is struggling for its independence and the movement launched by lawyers is commendable,” he said. About the provincial autonomy, the PPP leader said the matter could be settled by restoring the 1973 Constitution. To another question, he said his party would never support President Musharraf whether he was in uniform or not. If it comes to power, he said, the PPP would change the foreign policy to suit the national interest. Special emphasis will be laid on improving relations with the neighboring countries, he said.