Benazir ask reconstitution of EC:Thousands lawyers and politicians arrested
Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto a reign of terror against protesting lawyers and journalists must end. she said she had conveyed to PML (N) chief Mian Nawaz Sharif through Mr Ishaq Dar her desire to wage a common struggle if the emergency was imposed. One minister who attended a cabinet meeting chaired by Shaukat Aziz, the Prime Minister, said: "The issue of holding elections was discussed at length... I feel that the elections may be delayed by two months. There will not be a delay of elections for longer than three months. There is no final decision." PML (N) president Shahbaz Sharif talking to the media here on Monday said that time had now come for all political parties to shun their differences and get together on one platform against “Musharraf’s illegal, unconstitutional and immoral dictatorial rule”. Benazir hoped that all democratic parties would unite to emancipate the people from the yoke of dictatorship and the menace of terrorism and extremism....