QUETTA, Oct 26: Balochistan’s former governor Lt-Gen (retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch said the rulers were adopting measures which indicated that elections would not be fair and alleged that a plan had already been prepared to rig the elections. He said that the rulers were saying that they wanted to hold fair elections after the promulgation of the National Reconciliation Ordinance, but they were not allowing PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif to return to the country.
He said he was not sure that political parties would be given a fair chance to take part in the elections without interference from the army, secret agencies and foreign powers.
National Party president Dr Hayee Baloch said Baloch people were being killed in military operations. He asked political leaders, journalists, intellectuals and members of the civil society to highlight the issue of Balochistan.
BNP-M secretary-general Habib Jalib alleged that the rulers had already started pre-election rigging by allocating huge funds to PML-Q ministers and MPAs in the province.
Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party secretary-general Akram Shah said Pakhtuns had been divided in the 1973 Constitution and rulers had not allowed democracy and institutions to flourish.
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