**Global conspiracy behind PPP’s defeat: Rabbani
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KARACHI: The world establishment is responsible for the defeat of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in the general elections because they want to form the government to pursue their own agenda, said the PPP deputy secretary general, Raza Rabbani, on Thursday.
Addressing a press conference at the Karachi Press Club, Senator Raza Rabbani said his party accepted the election results just for the sake of democracy in the country.
He said the PPP and other liberal forces were barred from running their election campaigns on the instructions of the world establishment and it was one of the factors that played a hand in his party’s defeat.
The senator said the PPP would play constructive role as the opposition and monitor the performance of the new government.
He said that it was the responsibility of the new government to resolve major issues like terrorism, adding that his party would support the government in rooting out terrorism.
Rabbani said the PPP emerged as the second largest party in the country and the people of Sindh gave it majority mandate to form the government in the province. The PPP accepted the mandate of all parties and others must accept the PPP’s mandate, he added.
He said the PPP had set a seven-point agenda to play its role as the opposition and see what would be the policy of the new government on economic issues, employment, price hikes, trade unions, provincial autonomy, education and health.
The PPP will criticise the policies with suggestions and play a positive role for strengthening democracy, he added.
The PPP leader said his party had protected democracy and prevented the derailing of the system. He hoped that the new government would also protect the democratic system.
He said the new government must assure the nation that it would ensure the implementation of Articles 172, 157 and 158 that protect the rights of the province to utilise their resources like gas and electricity.
The senator said the nation wanted to know what would be the policy of the new government regarding the Gwadar Port, which was handed over to China, and the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project.
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Why simply they don’t concede that they let the whole nation down like never before? Why there has to be a conspiracy against them everytime? Is there conscience really clean? Are they really satisfied with their performance? Just when they will start talking about their performance instead of saazish and shahadat?
