Karachi situation doesn’t reflect govt’s failure: Zardari

MANDI BAHAUDDIN: President Asif Ali Zardari has said that deteriorating law and order situation doesn’t reflect failure of the government, Geo News reported on Wednesday.

Addressing an Eid Millan Party in Mandi Bahauddin, the president said that it was part of terrorist’s policy to aggravate situation in Karachi to engage the state and undermine its efforts against war on terror.

Zardari announced that general elections would be free and fair and to be held in time, adding that electoral rolls were made in such a way that could prevent rigging.

“We intend to stabilize Pakistan through resources wherever we found them and bring them here, we cannot follow philosophy of 5 years, we have to look beyond that,” the president said.

He called for joint efforts to serve the country, adding that government’s rivals also conceded the parliament was going to complete its tenure.

“We didn’t work for a single party instead we worked for Pakistan, we will prosper if Pakistan will, we will drown if Pakistan sinks,” he added.

The president recalled that he spent his youth days in the jails of Punjab.