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HYDERABAD, June 20: A former MPA and PPP leader, Mohammad Ameen Lakho, has urged the military rulers to accept the demand of political leaders and form an interim government to hold the general election in free and fair manner.
Speaking at a news conference at the PPP secretariat here on Thursday, Mr Lakho also demanded of the government to permit party chairperson Benazir Bhutto and PML (N) chief Nawaz Sharif to return to the country in the larger interest of the nation.
He said President Gen Pervez Musharraf had admitted that India had not attacked Pakistan because it was a nuclear power. Gen Musharraf should be thankful to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who made the country a nuclear power, he added.
He ridiculed the allegations of Gen Musharraf that politicians were responsible for destroying Pakistan.
The PPP leader claimed that it was always during the military regimes that the people were deprived of their fundamental human rights and terrorism and extremism had taken roots.
He pointed out that due to the bad governance and mal-administration of the military rulers, the country was facing terrorism, sabotage, price hike, unemployment and lawlessness and suicides had become common. Not only this, but the very survival of the country was also at stake due to the aggressive designs of India.
He said it was the need of the hour that the military rulers should take the leaders of the political parties, especially PPP and PML (N), into confidence.
AMBULANCES: The Sindh health and population welfare minister, Ahsan Ahmad, has said the government is determined to provide rural health centres and taluka hospitals with medical equipment and ambulances.
He was talking to people during his visits to Matiari, Sokhat, Khyber and Tando Allahyar rural health centres and anti-polio centres in connection with the anti-polio campaign here on Tuesday. Taluka Nazims accompanied the minister.
Mr Ahmad directed the health department to go from house to house to administer polio-drops and keep a proper record of used vials which should remain in their custody.
Answering a question, the Sindh minister said that,with the help of union council Nazims, vaccinators would be appointed on merit in July.
He said the government was taking interest to eradicate polio from the country and expressed the hope that by the end of December, Pakistan would become a polio-free country.
The EDO, health, Dr Qadir Buksh Memon, briefed the minister about the deployment of various teams at bus stands, railway stations and fixed centres.
Meanwhile, the minister for law and human rights, Sindh, Abdul Qadir Halepoto, assured that the problems of the people would be resolved at their doorsteps.
