Presidential order ‘midnight assault’ on democracy, says Zardari

ISLAMABAD: PPP co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari has rejected the presidential order changing the voting procedure for the Senate elections for Fata without parliamentary debate as a midnight assault on democracy.
“The abrupt and mysterious shifting of goal post and changing the rules of the game just when the match had started and brazen assault on the tribal people is totally unacceptable and must be reversed,” Zardari’s spokesman Senator Farhatullah Babar quoted the president as saying in a policy statement.
It’s an electoral fraud committed in the guise of election reforms to disenfranchise the tribal people, he said.