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Bhutto, Sharif to decide on election boycott
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Bhutto, Sharif to decide on election boycott
In a fresh bid to forge opposition unity, Pakistan?s two most popular leaders Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto were expected to meet yesterday to consider boycotting the January 8 polls, while electoral authorities were to decide on the validity of the PML-N leader?s nomination papers. The decision will be anxiously awaited as the candidacy of his brother Shahbaz Sharif was rejected on Saturday citing pending criminal charges. Despite the party?s decision to boycott the polls, Shahbaz has decided to challenge the decision in court saying the move was politically motivated. Bhutto has said that if the elections are boycotted it would strengthen Musharraf as parties backed by him would come into power.
?That?s why we are saying we will take part in elections under protest, but we will also leave the door open? for boycott, the Pakistan People?s party chief told reporters in Peshawar during her election campaign. Bhutto claimed she was getting conflicting signals from Sharif and Islamist alliance MMA?s leaders on the issue of boycott as they had filed their nomination papers.
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