September 23, 2002	Monday	Rajab 15, 1423

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ISLAMABAD, Sept 22: The Pakistan Muslim League-N candidate from NA-48, Syed Zafar Ali Shah, has urged the people to reject the “king’s party” in elections as it represented the usurpers of their rights and those who have been instrumental in repeated suspension of the democratic order.

Speaking at corner meetings in suburban area of the capital on Sunday, the former MNA said: “Islamabad is brain of the country, therefore the electorate must keep it in their mind that a wrong decision on their part could cause trouble to the whole of the country.”

He strongly defended former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif with regard to the allegations that he had plundered the national wealth.

“He was the saviour of the nation, who was taking the country on a path of prosperity and peace. His schemes of easy loans for peasants and for public transport vehicles were the first acts of their kind ever introduced by any government,” he maintained.

In addition to this, “the bold act of making Pakistan a nuclear power speak volumes of his being a sympathizer of the downtrodden and an advocate of a strong Pakistan,” Mr Shah said.

Meanwhile, the People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) candidate for NA-49, Nayyar Hussain Bukhari, speaking at various corner meetings, claimed that the “PPP was the first party of the country which created awareness among the masses about their fundamental rights”.