January 6, 2003	Monday	Ziqa’ad 2, 1423

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BAHAWALPUR, Jan 5: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-i-Azam (PML-Q) district president Chaudhry Iqbal alias Shair-i-Yazman, a former MPA, has announced the party support for Syed Tasneem Nawaz Gardezi, who is contesting the by-election on NA-187 (Bahawalpur-V) as an independent candidate.

He was speaking at a press conference at his residence on Sunday, which was also attended by Mr Gardezi along with other PML-Q leaders.

He claimed that Nawab Salahuidin Abbasi would also support Mr Gardezi in the by-election.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr Gardezi said that after his victory in Yazman Tehsil, the tradition of registering false cases against political opponents would come to an end.

CABINET “NON-REPRESENTATIVE”: Local political and public circles are dismayed by the fact that Bahawalpur district has not been given representation in the Punjab cabinet.

Expressing their disappointment over Bahawalpur’s exclusion from the cabinet, the locals were of the view that the ruling PML-QA and its allied National Alliance had five MPAs hailing from Bahawalpur, anyone of whom could have been made a minister. They claimed that the chief minister on his first ever visit to Bahawalpur on Dec 21, had assured the locals that Bahawalpur district would be represented in the cabinet.

They urged the chief minister to include any one MPA of his party or the alliance from Bahawalpur district in his cabinet so that the sense of deprivation created among the local population would not be exploited by those opposed to the government.