'People want to see change in leadership'

PTI leader fears Sharif, Zardari will initiate conspiracy against democracy

HYDERABAD:  

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairperson Shah Mehmood Qureshi has expressed fear that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's leader Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan Peoples Party's leader Asif Ali Zardari are likely to initiate a conspiracy against democracy.

"If Sharif begins the politics of protest after his [return from the UK to Pakistan], it will be considered a conspiracy against democracy," said Qureshi while talking to the media in Tharparkar district on Monday.

He contended that both Zardari and Sharif will claim that their protests are for the sake of the supremacy of the Constitution. "But the people can no longer be deceived by such theatrics."

The PTI leader believed that people wanted to see a change of leadership in the country and that they are well-aware of the dismal performance by PML-N and PPP governments.

However, he appreciated that Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz are returning to Pakistan and said they have the right to file an appeal against the accountability court's judgment.



Earlier, in Umerkot on Sunday, Qureshi advised PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to part ways with his father and his team of politicians. Qureshi said Zardari and his cabal have hijacked former prime minister and PPP's founding leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's party.

"The PTI has thrown out Zardari's league from Punjab and will do this in Sindh now." He claimed that the PPP's candidates in Sindh are facing humiliation at the hands of the electorate wherever they go to canvass for votes. He argued that the party has also lost support in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and even South Punjab.

Qureshi is contesting on two National Assembly seats, NA-220 and NA-221, in Umerkot and Tharparkar districts respectively. The Pir Pagara-led Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) has announced support for his candidacy. The PTI, in reciprocity, will support GDA's candidates on the Sindh Assembly constituencies in the two districts.

Qureshi held on Sunday and Monday several corner meetings in the two districts and campaigned for himself and GDA's candidates.