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| September 8, 2002 | Sunday | Jamadi-us-Saani29,1423 |
Arrest of MMA leaders flayed
SUKKUR, Sept 7: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA), Sukkur, has condemned the arrest of the party’s central leaders at the Lahore Railway Station.
The MMA, at its meeting held at Jamia Ashrafia here on Saturday, said the action of the government to arrest the leaders of the party was unlawful and unconstitutional.
The meeting said when the leaders, Allama Shah Ahmad Noorani, Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Allama Sajid Naqvi, Prof Sajid Mir and others, reached the railway station to board Khyber Mail to start their “ Train March”, the police and the administration stopped them, despite they had tickets and booked their seats in advance.
The meeting said any person holding a railway ticket had a right to travel, and to stop him from journey was amounted to kidnapping.
It demanded of the Election Commission and the president to register cases against the officials concerned and release the leaders.
PPP PROTEST: About 100 woman activists of the Pakistan People’s Party staged a protest rally here on Saturday against the rejection of nomination forms of Benazir Bhutto.
The rally, led by Dr Mehreen Bhutto, PPP Women Wing president, Khairpur, started from Bhutto House and after marching through main thoroughfares of the city terminated at the Khairpur Press Club.
Speaking at the rally, the PPP leaders said the Election Commission was not working independently and the forms of PPP leaders were rejected under the government pressure.
They demanded to allow Benazir to contest the election.
COP INJURED: A police constable and a bandit were injured in an encounter between the police and two bandits in the jurisdiction of the Abad police station.
The bandits at gun point robbed Abdul Razzak Brohi of his motorcycle on Saturday morning. A police patrolling party chased the bandits and after an exchange of fire, constable Mohammad Ali Jamali and the bandit, Khan Ahmad Khorkhani, were injured.
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