Hidden powers want to sabotage polls but we won't let them: Siraj

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Condemning the attacks on Akram Khan Durrani in Bannu, Siraj Raisani in Quetta and Haroon Bilour in Peshawar, Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq said on Friday that some hidden powers wanted to sabotage the July 25 general elections, but they would not let them do so.

The JI chief told public rallies in Kumbar Maidan and Odigram that attacks on poll candidates in Peshawar, Bannu and Quetta were not a good omen for the country, and that some hidden powers wanted to derail the democratic process.

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