May 18, 2003	Sunday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 15, 1424

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GUJRANWALA, May 17: The PPP-Parliamentarian will launch a protest campaign against the LFO, price increase, lawlessness, unemployment and safe return of the party chairperson with a token hunger strike outside the Punjab Assembly from May 20.

This was stated by Punjab PPP president Qasim Zia at an executive committee meeting held in Ladheywala Warriach village on Saturday at the residence of MNA Imtiaz Safdar Warriach. Punjab PPP officiating general secretary Abdul Qadir Shaheen, information secretary Navid Chaudhry, vice presidents Imtiaz Warriach, Bashir Gujjar, Mahmood Bhatti, Ahmad Husain, central executive committee member Nawabzada Ghazanfar Gul, federal council member Khwaja Aslam Lone, People’s Lawyers Forum provincial president Raja Zulqarnain and others attended the meeting.

The meeting condemned the government for not releasing funds for opposition members and decided that the issue would be raised in the assembly.

The participants reposed confidence in the leadership of Ms Benazir Bhutto and suggested boycott of the PPP-Patriots at every forum.

Later, the party leaders went to People’s Labour Bureau president Iqbal Husain’s residence to condole his death.