Pakistan Link : APDM meeting continues to decide on boycotting elections

APDM meeting continues to decide on boycotting elections

December 9, 2007

LAHORE: The meeting of the All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) continues in Lahore Sunday under the chairmanship of Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif and is expected to make a decision on whether to boycott January 8 polls, party officials said.

Present in the meeting are Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Imran Khan, Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, Mian Shahbaz Sharif, Raja Zafarul Haq, Dr. Qadir Magsi, Ehsan Wayne, Mehmud Achakzai, Prof. Sajid Mir, Abid Hasan Manto and others.

Talking with media before the meeting, Qazi Hussain Ahmed said that the restoration of the judges is our fundamental demand and we will not make any compromise on it.

Imran Khan said that he would full pressure on the APDM leadership for bocotting the elections.

APDM component parties say that free and fair elections were not possible under the hand-picked judiciary and emergency rule imposed by President Pervez Musharraf on November 3.

The attorney general has said that emergency rule would be lifted on December 15.

But opposition parties accuse the election commission of being biased and say that it could not hold free and transparent polls.

Courtesy TheNews