HYDERABAD, June 24: The chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Party (Shaheed Bhutto), Ms Ghinwa Bhutto, said on Sunday Benazir Bhutto succeeding are failing to reach a deal with the government would do noting to solve people’s problems.

Addressing a news conference after presiding over a party convention here she said that all the previous rulers including Ms Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif had entered into deals with army but they could not people’s problems. However, it was time for surprises and she did not rule out any surprise in Pakistan, she added.

She said that the country was faced with not one but many crisis and the biggest among them was the energy crisis. Instead of solving people’s problems, the rulers and politicians were engaged in sabre rattling and wasting their energy on non-issues.

She said that the country needed politicians who could think in terms of the 21st century. The developed countries had started using alternate sources of energy but the country’s rulers had avoided using nuclear energy because they did not want to provide cheap electricity to people.

She said that voter’s lists had been distorted deliberately to keep people away from elections. But her party believed in people power and would continue to struggle for its objective, she said.

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