PPP mulls quitting the race over ‘biased’ decision by SC

The Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) is considering quitting the presidential race over the decision of the Supreme Court to reschedule the presidential election on a petition of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. “This decision has caused prejudice against the contesting candidates who were not heard in this case,” PPPP’s presidential candidate Senator Raza Rabbani stated at a press conference. He was flanked by PPPP leaders Amin Fahim, Aitzaz Ahsan and opposition leader in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah. Protesting strongly on the court’s decision, opposition leader in Senate Aitzaz Ahsan said that it has compelled the party to think whether to contest the presidential election or not. “Supreme Court speedily imparts justice whenever PML-N applies for it,” Aitzaz remarked. Raza Rabbani noted that the order of the court has badly impacted his election campaign, as only two days are not enough to visit all the provincial capitals to carry out the election campaign. “I am a middle class person and have no jet plane to undertake the election campaign contrary to ruling party’s candidate who might use prime minister’s plane for campaigning,” Rabbani said. He objected to the court’s decision and said it had only heard the PML-N and rescheduled the presidential election from August 6 to July 30 without sending a notice to the contesting candidates to hear them in this particular case. tanveer ahmed