‘Transforming Pakistan’: Activist to go on hunger strike

Akhtar urges government to table an anti-corruption bill.

Express September 10, 2011
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‘Transforming Pakistan’: Activist to go on hunger strike
ISLAMABAD: A businessman and political activist, Raja Jahangir Akhtar, announced on Friday that he would launch a campaign against ‘rampant corruption’ by staging a ‘hunger strike unto death’ on September 12.

Addressing a press conference, Akhtar urged the government to table an anti-corruption bill, besides calling upon all political parties to include in their manifestos a point to make Pakistan progressive, peaceful, liberal and democratic country.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 10th,  2011.
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