ANP’s Bushra Gohar says Taliban make selection in 3 provinces

Bushra Gohar of Awami National Party has claimed that elections are being held only in Punjab whereas selection is being done in the rest of three provinces.

She said Taliban are making selection as to who will go to the Parliament.

She was speaking in ‘Sachay Swal’ programme of Radio Pakistan‚ which is being produced in collaboration with BBC Pakistan.

She said voters’ turn out in the elections would be low in the 3 provinces because of security fears. She said leaflets are being distributed to warn our workers against going to polling stations.

Former Foreign Minister and PPP leader Hina Rabbani Khar has said that level playing field is pre-requisite for free and fair elections but this is nowhere seen in the present elections.

Hina Rabbani Khar pointed out that hindrance is not being created by the state‚ any institution or any political party but by terrorist outfits. She said those sitting on the right side are running their election campaign freely while PPP‚ MQM and ANP are being targeted.

Asked by one of the audience what the PPP Government did during its tenure of 5 years‚ she said dictatorship destroyed institutions of the country but despite limitations the previous Government took a number of initiatives on legal and administrative fronts to fight terror effectively.

Pakistan Director of Human Rights Watch Ali Dayan said casting of vote is all the more necessary as Taliban want to destabilize the state of Pakistan. He said voters should come out of their homes on May 11 to foil designs of Taliban to harm democracy and democratic institutions.

To a question‚ he said teachers and professors are refusing to perform election duties in Balochistan because of fear of life in areas dominated by Baloch nationalists. He said if Baloch nationalists want to contest votes and get elected then they should provide guarantees that their workers would not attack election staff.

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