LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)’s Chief Mian Nawaz Sharif in his meeting with party workers hailing from Karachi division avoided making bellicose remarks against the MQM but spoke out much more forcefully against the alleged bogus cases being instituted against innocent Baloch nationals. He said that this should stop immediately.
This was the last in a series of eight consultative meetings that Nawaz Sharif held with party workers from across Pakistan including Gilgit-Balistan but not Azad Kashmir.
The most ominous signal sent out by the chief of the PML-N was the hint of another long march to protest the policies of the PPP-led government. While he did not give any date for the march, he demanded the government immediately withdraw the latest increase in petroleum prices.
The last meeting included workers from Karachi division, Larkana, Kashmore, Shikarpur, Quetta, Gwadar, Turbet, Kalat, Dera Bugti, Punjgore, Lasbella and Qila Saif at Model Town.
He urged the party workers from Karachi to co-exist with the party workers of MQM. But he went on to say that the PML-N would continue to demand a judicial inquiry into the incident of May 12 2007.
Criticising the provincial government of Sindh for failing to ensure peace in Karachi, he said that arrested target killers should be punished. He called for national unity.
He said that Sindh was deliberately kept backward but his party would eliminate the miseries of Sindhi people. He said that PPP never fulfilled its written contract with PML-N and that it was still following the policies of Musharraf.
Speaking about Balochistan he said that innocent Baloch have been labelled traitors and cases framed against them. He said that PML-N believes that Baloch have the first right on their resources. He said that PML-N would address all grievances of the Baloch.
Former Sindh Chief Minister Syed Ghous Ali Shah also spoke and condemned the resolution passed by the Sindh Assembly against the Punjab Government and termed it an effort to divert attention from the serious problems being faced by the people of Sindh.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 2nd, 2011.
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