LONDON: Benazir Bhutto's niece Fatima Bhutto questioned the democratic credentials of Pakistan's top leaders, PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and PML N leader Nawaz Sharif, in the ruling coalition who have moved to impeach President Pervez Musharraf. 

She said PPP co chairman Asif Ali Zardari and PML N leader Nawaz Sharif, who are seeking Musharraf s removal, have "no mandate in Pakistan."

" ... Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari are unelected. They re not just unrepresentative in that they don t hold seats in the parliament they have absolutely no mandate in Pakistan. They head the two largest, and most corrupt, parties in the state but hold no public office," Fatima wrote in an article in the Guardian newspaper.

"The rest of the coterie that wields power behind this administration, the attorney general and the interior minister for instance, also happen to be unelected. They serve, and I use the term ever so lightly, by appointment only," she said. 

Source : PTI