Some solidarity: PML-N a no-show at Governor’s meeting

‘We will not tolerate anti-democratic elements’.

LAHORE:

The political parties will not allow any anti-democratic elements to sabotage the upcoming elections and the continuity of the democratic process.

This was the agreement at a joint meeting of the provincial heads of political parties held at the Governor’s House in Lahore today. The meeting was presided over by Governor Makhdoom Syed Ahmad Mahmood.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz neither attended the governor’s farewell dinner for his colleagues in the assembly on Sunday evening nor participated in today’s meeting. Governor Mahmood said he regretted their absence.

Governor Mahmood said that everyone would have to support efforts to foil the nefarious designs of the anti-democratic forces trying to destabilise the democratic process and are hatching conspiracies against the elections. He said it was a great achievement on the part of the political parties that the current government was about to be replaced by another elected government.



The meeting was attended by Pakistan People’s Party Punjab President Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo, PPP Punjab Secretary General Tanvir Ashraf Kaira, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-i-Azam Lahore President Yousaf Ahad Malik, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leaders Muhammad Zaki and Mazhar Sahi, National Party members Ahsan Wyne Awami and Arif Azhar, Awami Tehreek members Malik Qadri and Sheikh Zaid Fayyaz, PML-Like Minded members Manzoor Gillani and Mian Irfan Akram, Syed Qalandar Shah, Jamaat-i-Islami Punjab Ameer Dr Waseem Akhtar, Jamaat-i-Islami General Secretary Nazir Ahmed Janjua, Abdul Qadir Shaheen, Mufti Saeed Ahmed, Syed Saeed Ahmed Shah Gujrati, Islamic Democratic Front Chairman Syed Munir Hussain Gillani, Islamic Democratic Front General Secretary Malik Muhammad Akram Khokhar, PM-(Malik Qasim Group) member Saifullah Saif.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 8^th, 2013.