RECORDER REPORT
LAHORE: Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo PPP President of Punjab has said in a statement on Saturday that he would file a petition in the Supreme Court, if security as per entitlement as the former Chief Minister is not provided to him within three days by the government.
He said that the visible discrimination was a glaring violation of the established rules dealing with the privileges to the former CMs. It is grossly unfair to single me out to deprive from security while others were enjoying far above their entailment, he said. He also underscored the importance of extending security to the PPP leaders and their candidates because they were on the hit list of the extremists who announced the naked threat in no uncertain terms.
On the continuation of the Interior Minister, Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo, demanded that the Prime Minister should immediately sack him for his open partisan statement adding his retention in the cabinet would raise the question of impartiality and neutrality of the caretaker government.
He also referred to the media reports that suggested that the Interior Minister was "calling shots" in the important decision making process and the Prime Minister had taken the back seat. Prime Minister should immediately rectify this impression by removing his Interior Minister adding taking notice of him was not good enough.
He maintained that the caretakers should not only be neutral but also seen to be neutral because of its importance in holding free, fair and transparent elections in the country so important for the future of democracy and indeed for the federation.
He said that the PPP was all out to extend its full co-operation to the caretaker governments and the Election Commission of Pakistan in holding independent and transparent elections on May 11, 2013.
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