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MANDI BAHAUDDIN, July 5: Punjab MMA Secretary-General Allama Syed Mohammad Mehfooz Mashadi and JI Amir Syed Ijaz Husain Khayali have announced joining hands with the PML-N for the upcoming local bodies elections in the district. In a joint press conference here on Tuesday at the JI district office, they said the alliance would nominate candidates for district and tehsil nazim slots.
Citing brilliant success of the religious parties alliance in the Iranian presidential elections, Mr Mashadi claimed: “Our alliance will emerge victorious and defeat the pro-US rulers.”
He said price-hike, obscenity, unemployment, lawlessness and corruption had frustrated the people of Pakistan and now they would elect the religious parties.
UPLIFT WORK: District Development Committee Chairman MPA Riaz Asghar Warriach has expressed his dissatisfaction over the slow pace of uplift work and urged the DCO to ensure timely completion.
Addressing a special meeting of the committee on Tuesday, he said negligent and inefficient officials would not be spared.
BLACK DAY: The Pakistan People’s Party observed a black day here on Tuesday against the overthrow of ZA Bhutto’s government by the late Gen Ziaul Haq in 1977.
Speaking at the party’s district office, PPP Punjab council member Shakil Ijaz, former district nazim Nazar Muhammad Gondal, district president Tariq Tarar, city chief Diwaan Shamim Akhtar and others said the July 5 would remain a black day in the history of the country as a military dictator toppled a democratic government for his ulterior designs.
They said the present military rulers should learn a lesson from the history.
Meanwhile, the PPP district chapter has announced contesting the coming local government polls under the ‘Awaam Dost group’ and invited applications from aspirants till July 15, District Information Secretary Muhammad Husain Shakir said in a press conference here on Tuesday.
Azmatullah Marth, Iqbal Gondal, M.Husain Shakir, Diwaan Shamim Akhtar, Raja Mumtaz, Mirza Ikram and Rashid Warraich are members of the election board, he added.
