Asghar Khan case verdict validates BB's stance: Gilani

MULTAN: Senior Vice Chairman PPP Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Friday that the Supreme Court verdict in Asghar Khan case validated Shaheed Benazir Bhutto stance of 'stealing elections in 1990'.
Talking to reporters at the Multan Airport before departing to Islamabad, he said politicians were bribed form IJI for defeating the Pakistan People's Party in 1990 elections.
He said Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Shaheed Benazir Bhutto had rendered sacrifices for the rights of the masses.
Gilani said the PPP with its coalition partners had restored the 1973 Constitution, judiciary and the media as per demands and wishes of the people.
To a question, he said the PPP would resolve the energy crisis and added that the up-coming general elections would be free, fair and transparent.
On a question, Gilani said the PPP always respected all institutions.
Criticising the Punjab government, he said the Punjab government was demanding early elections in the past but now it needed time because many of its development projects were still incomplete.
To a question, the senior vice chairman PPP said expressing the personnel point of view within the party was a beauty of democracy.
He said Mian Manzoor Wattoo was a seasoned parliamentarian and the PPP would get benefit from his experience in general elections.
Gilani said his roots were in the masses and he would remain in the masses.