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| March 15, 2002 | Friday | Zilhaj 30, 1422 |
‘Benazir, Nawaz should not be allowed to contest polls’
FAISALABAD, March 14: It will be a setback for sovereignty of the country in case ‘disgruntled and corrupt politicians’ sitting abroad are allowed to contest the general elections.
This was stated by PML-QA central leaders while speaking at a workers’ convention held here on Thursday.
Punjab PML-QA president Pervez Elahi said candidates in all the national and provincial assembly constituencies would be nominated after consulting local leaders.
He alleged the previous governments looted national wealth with impunity and set up their ‘empires’ at the cost of the lives of the poor countrymen. But the PML-Q would launch public welfare projects after coming into power and recovered the looted money.
Levelling allegations of corruption against former premiers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto, he urged the government not to allow them to contest the polls.
Provincial secretary-general Arshad Khan Lodhi said his party was not playing the role of B-team of the rulers but trying to set up a genuinely-elected government.
Former ministers Humayun Akhtar, Syed Iftikhar Gilani and Raja Basharat said more workers’ conventions, meetings and rallies would be arranged in various parts of the country to explain party manifesto to the people.
They claimed that after coming into power, the PML-QA would change the political structure of the country besides ending corruption, terrorism and misuse of official powers.
Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam central amir Maulana Ajmal Qadri announced that the PML-QA and his party would take part in the general elections jointly.
PML-QA women’s wing central president Neelofar said welfare-oriented schemes for womenfolk would be announced by his party if voted to power.
Rana Amanullah Khan, Akram Babar, Begum Naseem Lodhi and other local leaders also spoke on the occasion.
SOIL MANAGEMENT: The ninth international congress on ‘soil management under stress environment’ will be held here at the Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB) from March 18.
The three-day congress is being organized by the Soil Science Society of Pakistan in collaboration with the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, the Ayub Agricultural Research Institute and the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.
Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Livestock Khair Muhammad Junejo will inaugurate the congress while the concluding session will be presided over by Punjab Minister for Food and Cooperatives Khurshid Zaman Qureshi.
VEHICLES’ RECORD: Local police have started computerization of the record of stolen vehicles.
A police spokesman said on Thursday that the police had been directed to approach computer cell set up at Rescue-15 centre and verify the registration numbers of the vehicles in case of any doubt during checking at pickets.
He said that local police took into custody 13 vehicles which were stolen from various parts of the country during a surprise checking in the city. “The record is being upgraded on a daily basis,” the spokesman said.
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