LAHORE, Dec 26: Benazir Bhutto neither needs any “green signal” to come back nor she can be scared into remaining away from the country by the `threatening’ language being used by Gen Musharraf, says Sherry Rahman, central information secretary of the Pakistan People’s Party (Parliamentairans).

At a press conference here on Tuesday, she alleged Gen Musharraf was himself running election campaign for the PML-Q, which was unconstitutional.

Accusing the president of using threatening language against both former prime ministers during public meetings, she said such it was immoral and smacked of bad intentions.

The PPP, she said, would not take any dictation on the issue of return of its chairperson to the country and added: “Benazir Bhutto would return before next general elections, and that is final.”

Emphatically denying PPPP’s involvement in any kind “deal” with the government, she said: “In fact, the party does not need to get into any deal with any one. It has a clear stand on almost all issues bedeviling the country. It is committed to democratic norms, and does not need to strike deal with dictators and army men. The talks about any deal is a misinformation campaign being launched and sustain by agencies.”

She said Gen Musharraf did not have any solution to people’s problems. Listing the fronts on which, according to her, the general had failed, she said he had failed to arrest worsening law and order situation in the country, street crime had gone beyond any imaginable level, unemployment was rampant and 40 per cent people were living below the poverty line.

Gen Musharraf, she said, had been pledging clean water for all in the year 2007, whereas, according to a UN report, only 16 per cent people had access to sanitation, leave alone clean water.

She deplored the rocketing prices of daily-use items, and said the so-called Eid package announced by the government was restricted to the Utility Stores, which were too few in number to cater to public needs.

She said Karachi got drowned every time it rained there. Half of the country had become a no-go area for the rest of the population, including journalists, who were being killed and kidnapped in the line of duty, she said.

About Balochistan, she said it was smoldering and might erupt any time. Quoting a UN report, she said there were 84,000 displaced persons in the province and it was because of the on-going operation there.

Giving personal account of her meeting with the late Nawab Akbar Bugti, which she held as member of the committee that went to see him, she quoted him as saying that he was a political worker and wanted to talk out issues.

Terming rights situation in Balochistan grim, she demanded on the behalf of her party that the operation should be immediately stopped there. She said the federation was under threat, and all political forces understood the gravity of the situation, and were trying to hammer out a collective response.

Denying that the PPPP was a hurdle in the way of a grand alliance, she said the party had its own policies and commitments. But, that did not mean it would go alone, she added, saying the party was a part of the ARD and opposition and would try to evolve a joint response to every political development.