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Elahi criticises government over failure to meet promises
Pakistani opposition said yesterday it would launch a movement to mobilise people against the government for its "total failure" to fulfil its promises.
- By Shahid Hussain, Correspondent
- Published: 00:03 July 24, 2008
Islamabad: Pakistani opposition said yesterday it would launch a movement to mobilise people against the government for its "total failure" to fulfil its promises.
Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, the opposition leader in the National Assembly, told a news conference that the opposition would issue a "white paper" on the performance of the coalition government led by the Pakistan Peoples Party. Elahi, a leading figure in the former ruling Pakistan Muslim League-N, gave no date for the start of the movement and said a final decision would be made by the party soon.
He alleged that the PML-N government in the most populous Punjab province was trying to dismantle the local government system because that party had only two per cent representation in its various tiers.
The PML-Q leader accused Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif, brother of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, of harassing the local government officials. He vowed that the opposition would thwart attempts to do away with the local councils.
Elahi said the coalition government had not reinstated the judges despite its pledge. Moreover, the continuing energy crisis, food inflation and fuel price increase caused great hardship to the people, he said.
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