Zardari takes up level playing field issue with 'authorities concerned'.

LAHORE -- The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has reportedly conveyed its reservations regarding the need for a level playing field in the run-up to elections, to the 'quarters concerned'.

According to a report by a private media outlet, former president and PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari communicated his party's reservations to the authorities concerned.

PPP leader Qamar Zaman Kaira confirmed the development. 'Zardari sahib has held some meetings about the level playing field and will soon brief the party about it,' he was cited as saying in the news report.

Nearly a month ago on September 16, PPP's central executive committee had voiced apprehensions over the unfair treatment the party was being subjected to specifically by the caretakers in both the Punjab and Centre as well as the need for a level playing ahead of the upcoming general elections in the country.

The PPP had held back announcing its electoral strategy at the...