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Party veteran upset

A sidelined Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim on Thursday said the performance of the new coalition government was "very disappointing."

  • By Shahid Hussain, Correspondent
  • Published: 00:07 July 4, 2008
  • Gulf News

Islamabad: A sidelined Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim on Thursday said the performance of the new coalition government was "very disappointing."

In an interview aired by a private channel, Fahim said the party and its government were moving in different directions.

The veteran politician from Sindh province, who ran the party during the slain leader Benazir Bhutto's long spell in exile, was dumped by PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari after the elections in February, dashing his hopes to become prime minister. Fahim said the old guards of the party had been sidelined and replaced by those who were in the background during Benazir Bhutto's lifetime. "A 'tamasha' (amusement show) is going on," he said.

The estranged PPP stalwart said the masses were suffering under the crushing inflation while the government was not focusing on real issues.

In a separate development, the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) released a white paper on what it called the total failure of the new coalition government.

PML-Q, which suffered defeat in the February general election after having ruled the country for five years as loyalist of President Pervez Musharraf, titled its paper as "100-day betrayal" of the coalition government.

The party's parliamentary leader Faisal Saleh Haya said that the PPP-led coalition had failed to fulfill its commitment to restore the deposed judges. On the other hand the nation was facing extreme hardship due to alarming hike in prices of fuel and food and shortage of power.

He said the only achievement of the government during its first 100 days was that all corruption cases against the PPP leadership had been revoked under a national reconciliation law.

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