Musharraf provides level-playing field to all parties: PML-Q leader

President Pervez Musharraf has provided a level-playing field to all the political parties, major or small, to contest the general elections of January 8, 2008, however, now the political entities have to prove their performance to cash their vote bank in the polls-2008.

Former provincial minister, Sardar Manzoor Ali Khan Panhwar, who is also a leader of PML (Q) expressed these views while talking to APP here on Wednesday.

The President has given the task to the caretaker government to hold free, fair and transparent polls in the country, Manzoor Panhwar said.

However, he said, victory or defeat of any political party depends upon the verdict, which will be given by the court of people that will announce the judgement in shape of votes on January 8.

The President has been acting as neutral and impartial and he has directed the caretaker government to do the same. That is why the President Pervez Musharraf has allowed former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif for returning to Pakistan, he said.

The election campaign launched by all the political parties has been in full swing across the country, Panhwar said.

It is the testimony to the fact that the all the political parties have been provided the level playing field in the elections as all the leaders of political parties including Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto and Quaid of Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) Muhammad Nawaz Sharif have been fully engaged in the election campaign, said Manzoor Ali Khan.