ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Political Affairs Dr Asif Kirmani on Sunday alleged that the sitting Azad Jammu Kashmir government, led by the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), had made a plan to rig the upcoming general election by creating an environment of terror through professional killers.
In a statement, he urged the chief election commissioner of the state and the administration to ensure protection to public lives and property for peaceful and transparent conduct of the polls, demanding early arrest of the killers of two Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) workers. He strongly condemned life attempt on PML-N candidate Chaudhry Abdul Aziz in which the two party workers were killed.
Abdul Aziz was seriously injured in the indiscriminate firing by the goons in Haveli, he said. He also said that this was not the first incident as the opponents had already attacked the PML-N workers and leader Mushtaq Minhas in Nakiyal and Bagh. “Where are the AJK administration and CEC,” he questioned.
The government of Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed was afraid of the PML-N’s popularity in Azad Jammu Kashmir and that was why it was resorting to ‘terrorism.’ He recalled that threats by Prime Minister Abdul Majeed of gunning down federal ministers had already published in the media and were part of the record.
He said that the PML-N leaders approached the Kashmiri people with its manifesto for the upcoming elections like those belonging to other political parties. “It is our right. We go to the AJK under the same law, under which Yusuf Raza Gilani, Raja Parvez Ashraf and Qamar Zaman Kaira have been visiting the area,” he said.
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