GUJRAT, Sept 26: PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Husain said on Thursday the Hafizabad MPs had only threatened to resign from their offices.

Speaking at the 22nd death anniversary of Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi, a former federal minister, at the Zahoor Palace, he pledged that the government would meet the demands of the elected representatives in Hafizabad and remove difficulties they were facing in getting funds for development.

He went on to add that blackmailing by the parliamentarians would not be tolerated.

The construction of new dams was vital, said Chaudhry Shujaat, to overcome water shortage and remove a sense of deprivation among the people of Sindh.

Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said on this occasion the government was running the political affairs in accordance with law. “While being a part of the opposition, we did not utter a word against the judiciary,” he recalled, adding that during the late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s regime, our lands and factories were nationalized, but we kept fighting for our rights.

The government was set to allot five-marla plots to the poor in Sargodha, he iterated.

MNA Chaudhry Wajahat Husain, District Nazim Chaudhry Shafaat Husain and other speakers paid rich tributes to the late Chaudhry Zahoor. Top bureaucrats, more than 500 unions council Nazims and Naib Nazims and people of all walks of life attended the death anniversary.

Earlier, Pervaiz Elahi, Chaudhry Shujaat and his brothers laid chadar on the late Chaudhry Zahoor’s grave.

FM 105 LAUNCHED: The chief minister inaugurated on Wednesday evening a radio station named FM 105.