LAHORE, March 23: Trade union leaders at a Pakistan Day meeting held here on Saturday demanded an end to capitalism and feudalism.

Addressing the meeting organized by the All Pakistan Federation of Trade Union at the Bakhtiar Labour Hall, Agha Badrul Islam Abdali and Haji Amin Rathore said that the country could not progress without the abolition of feudalism and capitalism which allowed a handful of people to monopolize the national resources.

Khushi Muhammad Khokhar, Sheikh Shoaib and Osama Tariq said that the successive rulers by procuring loans worth billions of dollars and wasting and misappropriating them, successive rulers had frustrated Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s dream of making Pakistan a prosperous state. They demanded a detailed audit of bank loans to expose those responsible for economic mismanagement.

Malik Noor Muhammad, Shafqat Javed, Safdar Gill, Dilawar Rashid, Iqbal Bhatti and Hasan Munir stressed the need for electoral reforms which would allow people from all walks of life to be elected to the assemblies.