Rashid to boycott by-polls in Lahore, Jhang

Rashid to boycott by-polls in Lahore, Jhang

Updated at: 1850 PST,  Sunday, February 28, 2010  LAHORE: Chief of Awami Muslim League Sheigh Rashid Ahmed has announced that his party would boycott by-elections in NA-123 Lahore and PP-82 Jhang. Addressing a press conference he said, “the actual face of Punjab government has come into light following the rigging and coercion exercised by it during the recent by-election in NA-55.” He said those who call him disloyal had themselves ditched their workers before fleeing to other countries. “I will continue to expose this no.2 leadership,” he added. Sheikgh Rashid claimed that police and Patwar Khana were misused in Rawalpindi while ‘two men stabbed me in the back’. He requested the Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to set up a commission to probe the use of force and rigging in NA-55. “The N-League’s win in NA-55 was followed by a breakfast meeting with the Prime Minister,” Sheikh Rashid maintained, adding, it is actually a loss and not a win. To a question he said, a physician, musician and politician never retire. Well Rashid Sb i have heard you some where saying that political parties never run away from elections and now .....