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Govt rejects PML-N demand for commission

Talking to reporters, Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira asked the Sharif brothers to apologise to President Asif Ali Zardari and the nation for “stealing its mandate in the 1990 elections”.

“You are obliged to apologise to the president, the nation and history for stealing people’s mandate in 1990,” the minister said while addressing a Press conference at the PPP’s central secretariat.

The PML-N says it cannot trust the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to conduct an independent and impartial investigation because of its past record. The party has rejected the court’s direction and plans to file a review with the Supreme Court.

Kaira said it was the Supreme Court, and not the government, which had called an investigation through the FIA against politicians alleged to have received money from intelligence agencies in the 1990 elections as part of the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad — an alliance that had been formed by the then military establishment to defeat the PPP.

Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, had said on Sunday that his party had accepted the court’s verdict in the Asghar Khan case, but a probe by FIA was not acceptable to the party.

He had also rejected the demand for seeking an apology, saying the PML-N would do so if proven guilty.

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