HYDERABAD, March 29: People's Party Parliamentarians central secretary-general senator Raza Rabbani, while criticizing the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, has warned that the Wana operation will yield very serious repercussions.
Talking informally to journalists at the Bhurgari House here on Monday, he said the MMA was unjustly criticizing the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy, notwithstanding the fact that by voting for the 17th amendment, the Majlis had prolonged the rule of President General Pervez Musharraf.
He said no one should have any misgivings about the ARD as it had already started struggle for the removal of the general and added that alliance leaders would hold a march to Wana on March 31 as part of the Remove Musharraf Movement.
Rejecting the government's claim that the Wana operation had been called off, the senator said the Army had been withdrawn only from a particular place but the operation was continuing.
He said even if foreigners were present in the Wana region, the modus d'operandi of the operation was not correct as the issue should have been resolved through a jirga.
KHUHRO: People's Party Parliamentarians provincial president Nisar Ahmed Khuhro was stormed with complaints and questions at a meeting of local party workers held at the Bhurgari House here on Monday.
Speaking to party workers as well as journalists, Mr Khuhro said the party would be reorganized up to the union council level amid targeting of turncoats, traitors and hypocrites and added that sincere workers, who had rendered sacrifices in the cause of the party, would be given due recognition.
He said the PPP wanted to see Benazir Bhutto as the prime minister of Pakistan besides restoring the image of the party for which a consistent struggle would have to be launched throughout the country.
He said despite the conspiracy of the rulers and betrayal by turncoats, the party was still a force to reckon with and claimed that the PPP alone could restore the respect of the country and change the destiny of the people.
He told journalists that the results of the by-elections held under the patronage of the government were not unexpected, yet the Awam Dost Panel candidates had contested the elections with courage.
He said those leaders who had opposed the ADP candidates in the election of UC-2 Qasimabad Nazim would be taken to task. The provincial president also said he would welcome new entrants as long as they did not vie for party offices. Among others, MPAs Zahid Ali Bhurgari and Nuzhat Pathan, MNAs Amir Ali Shah Jamote and Mir Fateh Talpur attended the meeting.
