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| April 21, 2002 | Sunday | Safar 7, 1423 |
Qureshi praised for ‘principled’ stand
MULTAN, April 20: The Seraiki Qaumi Movement was all praise for the Multan district Nazim for his ‘principled’ stand on funding the referendum rallies and urged him to also raise voice for the oppressed Seraiki people.
Through a press statement issued here on Saturday, movement chief Hameed Asghar Shaheen, who is also PONM (Seraikistan unit) convener, said no other Nazim in the country could dare what Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi had done by not allowing to spend Multan district council resources on the referendum campaign of Gen Musharraf.
“Mr Qureshi has shown a character rare in Pakistani politics,” he added.
Mr Shaheen criticized the PPP for having double standards as, on one hand it was opposing the referendum, and on the other, its district Nazimeen were addressing public gatherings of the general to mobilize voters to turn up to the polling stations on April 30.
He alleged that the PPP had been habitual of betraying the political and democratic forces in the country when it came to strike deals with the establishment.
He said the double standards of the PPP had left Mr Qureshi alone to bear the government pressures for not succumbing to the demand of wasting public money to prolong an unconstitutional regime.
Mr Shaheen said though Mr Qureshi has been outspoken while advocating for the people of the south, he should now lead the struggle to get realized the rights of the Seraiki people.
He said Seraiki nationalists would welcome Mr Qureshi with open arms in their fold.
He claimed that the PPP and the PML(N) had been regionalized to the interior Sindh and the central Punjab, respectively.
‘MEETING A FAILURE’: The Pakistan People’s Party, Multan city, has termed the April 19 public meeting of Gen Musharraf a failed show of the establishment’s might.
City PPP president Khurshid Khan and information deputy secretary Tariq Raza claimed that the government could not get the desired results despite spending millions of rupees from the national exchequer.
They alleged that the government forced the representatives of local bodies for political labour.
They criticized the organizers of the meet