Makhdoom’s signatures still a problem for PPP

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 By Tariq Butt ISLAMABAD: Asif Ali Zardari is unlikely to ask Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians President Makhdoom Amin Fahim to put his mandatory signatures on the party's annual accounts for submission to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). "It is Amin Fahim's duty and responsibility to sign the requisite documents as required under the law," a PPP source close to Zardari said, adding that Zardari did not feel any need to ask the Makhdoom of Hala to do so. The PPP of Zardari does not exist legally in the eye of the ECP because it is not registered. Every party headed by a "convicted" leader was refused registration under the law. Since this legal provision had specifically applied to former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, she had got her party registered in the name of the PPP... [read full story]