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| May 3, 2005 | Tuesday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 23, 1426 |
PPP leaders boycott meeting
ISLAMABAD, May 2: The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) boycotted a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Balochistan held here on Monday. PPP President Makhdoom Amin Faheem and Leader of the Opposition in Senate Raza Rabbani are members of the committee. They did not attend the meeting to protest continuing arrests and harassment of PPP workers.
Mian Raza Rabbani, in a
statement, said that party
workers were being harassed
and arrested even at the time when the meeting was taking place.
The brutality against innocent citizens in Balochistan and party workers in the Punjab was continuing, he added.
In this situation, the party decided to boycott the meeting, he said.
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