SHIKARPUR, April 6: The People’s Party Parliamentarians is opposed to the Legal Framework Order and other undemocratic and unconstitutional steps, PPP leader Aftab Shahban Mirani said on Sunday.
Mr Mirani, while talking to journalists at the Mirani House here, said that the PPP, along with the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal and other parties, preferred that such matters should be placed before the Parliament as it was the only forum authorized to settle constitutional issues.
The PPP, he said, had always defended democracy in the country and it would never allow any individual to harm the democratic values.
Describing the Pakistan Muslim League-Q as an opportunist party, he said that the PML-Q and some like-minded individuals wanted to keep the PPP out of the mainstream politics to achieve their political aims because they could not achieve their ulterior motives in the presence of the PPP.
Mr Mirani informed that the show cause notices had been issued to the PPP turncoats, who, he said, had joined the government in violation of the party discipline.
Condemning the killing of innocent Iraqi people by the US-UK troops and criticising the foreign policy of Pakistan in this regard, he said that Islamabad, being an ally in the war against terrorism, should approach the administrations in Washington and London to stop the war imposed on Iraq.
AA: Ten bandits on Sunday attacked a police picket in the jurisdiction of the Lakhi Ghulam Shah police station and snatched five sub-machineguns, 600 rounds and an unspecified number of magazines.
A police party was said to be pursuing the bandits, who were reported to have fled towards the Tarat Jatoi village.
Meanwhile, ASI Ghulam Nabi Zardari and two police constables were taken into police custody in this regard.
BB: Five people were injured in a clash between the villagers of Diloo Daro Pahore village and Gohram Jatoi village in Khanpur Taluka on Saturday night.
A group of Jatoi tribesmen stole some cattle from the house of Gul Mohammad Pahore in the Diloo Daro Pahore village. The villagers followed the footprints of the thieves to the Gohram Jatoi village.
Seeing the Pahores coming towards their village, the Jatois opened fire. A clash started as a result of which five people — Gul Mohammad, Nawab Ali, Shaban, Karim Bux, and Mubarak Pahore — were injured.
On Sunday, the Pahores blocked the Shikarpur-Khanpur road, near Garho Muqam, for two hours.
The TPO, Khanpur, came and asked them to end the protest assuring them that the culprits would be arrested and the stolen cattle would be recovered.
MMA CONDEMNS ATTACK: Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro, general secretary, Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, Sindh, while speaking at a public gathering at Khanpur on Sunday, condemned the US-led attack on Iraq terming it an anti-human action.
He called on the people to prepare to sacrifice their lives and wage a Jihad against America and Israel and defend their Muslim brothers who were being killed in Iraq, Palestine and Kashmir.
