ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari has summoned the meeting of PPP’s CEC on Monday at Awani-I-Sadr to discuss the current political situation in the country with specific reference to the Arsalan-Riaz scam and its fallout.
Sources in the party informed TheNation that top party leadership was worried over the way certain quarters were linking the whole affair with the PPP-led govt and the meeting would definitely take up the matter in this context. The top party leadership had directed the senior party leaders to come up with statements to clarify the govt’s position as PPP and its leadership had nothing to do with the whole affair.
and that PPP would want to see the democratic institutions strong and stable.
The sources in Awan-I-Sadr confirmed that meeting would definitely be taking up the matter of Dr Arsalan Iftikhar in the CEC meeting as certain anti-democracy elements wanted to pitch the apex judiciary against the government and made it clear that coalition government stands for the supremacy of the constitution and rule of law in the country and it would only be possible when all the state institutions would continue to function within their defined constitutional ambit.
Officials also told that during the meeting, allegations levelled by opposition against government for hatching a conspiracy would also come under discussion and party would devise its future strategy.