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PPP to change j’udges' mode of appointment

Daily Times, Islamabad
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said on Tuesday that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) would join the PPP government at the
federal level, while the PPP would join them in Punjab.
He said it was incorrect to assume that the PML-N would support PPP's candidate for premiership but abstain from sitting in the federal cabinet.
Talking to Geo, Zardari said the PPP would not indulge in the politics of confrontation in the national interest. According to APP, he told the channel that all important issues would be discussed in parliament.
He said the PPP wanted to strengthen democratic institutions and did not believe in "confrontational politics”
Seek apology’: Also on Tuesday, Zardari told his party's losing candidates from Sindh that the PPP would gather the support of its political allies to seek an apology from parliament for the "judicial murder” of former premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
"Since it is now widely recognised by national and international jurists that the country's first directly elected prime minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was judicially murdered, we must seek an apology from parliament," he told the meeting, which was held to review the political situation in Sindh as well as decide on the party's future strategy.
On the issue of the sacked judiciary, Zardari said his party recognised that an inherent weakness in the judiciary had allowed it be manipulated by dictators, who used it to hold onto power. "That is why the PPP intends to take measures, in association with other political parties, to strengthen the judiciary by radically altering the mode of appointments of judges and giving it financial and admin-
istrative independence," he said.
He said the party would set up a 'Truth and Reconciliation Commission' to recognise and accord respect to the victims of state repression and injustices. "The apology to the people of Balochistan was the first step in this direction," he added.
Selective rigging: Zardari said the PPP had been a victim of "selective rigging" in various constituencies of Sindh, adding that it had reluctantly accepted the election results. He said the establishment had always conspired against elected ’ governments. "This is the time for demo-cratic political forces to strengthen democratic institutions in the country and eliminate the conspiracies of antidemocratic forces forever," he added.
The losing candidates present at the meeting complained that they had been deprived of “sure victories" in certain constituencies in Karachi and interior Sindh. They alleged that rival parties had rigged the elections.
A party source present at the meeting said some of the candidates had claimed that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, the National People s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid had "captured” polling stations. They said the Election Commission had ignored their complaints, he added. Zardari had assured them of the formation of special tribunals after coming into power to decide theircases, hesaid.
The PPP co-chairman also said that the party would urge the United Nations to lead an investigation into Benazir Bhutto's assassination in order to expose those behind the crime.