April 27, 2006	Thursday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 28, 1427

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GUJRANWALA, April 26: The PML-N is struggling to get rid of dictators and securing rights of the people. This was stated by PML-N leaders Ms Tehmina Daultana and Zulfiqar Ali Khosa while speaking at a party workers convention here on Wednesday.

They criticised the ruling party and the government for plundering national resources and bringing the country on the brink of disaster.

The government, they alleged, had failed in providing security to the people. Suicide incidents had increased alarmingly due to unprecedented hike in price hike and lawlessness.

PML-N leaders urged workers to make preparation for the general elections by accelerating the pace of party’s membership drive. They assured workers that only devoted workers would be given a proper place while those who left the party and joined the ruling PML would not be accepted back.

Punjab PML-N’s chief organiser and former federal minister Ghulam Dastagir Khan, former MNA Syed Iftikhar Husain Zarey Shah, Mehmood Bashir Virk, former MPA S.A Hameed, Rauf Mughal, Ghulam Farid, Sheikh Serwat Ikram and former adviser to prime minister Engineer Khurram Dastagir Khan also spoke.

DEATH SENTENCES: Local Anti-Terrorism Courts handed down death sentence to seven accused with a fine of Rs900,000, collectively, in two separate murder cases here on Wednesday.

The ATC No 1 awarded capital sentence on two counts each to two brothers, Qaiser and Nasir, with a fine of Rs200,000, collectively. The court acquitted their brother Tariq and Asif by giving them the benefit of the doubt.

According to the prosecution, convicts had kidnapped and killed minor boy Hasnain Asif, the son of Dhulley union council nazim Asif Cheema, over an old enmity and later threw his body near a factory on Dec 23, 2004.

While ATC No 2 handed down death sentence to five accused Mubarik Ali, Tariq (brothers), Sajjad, Baber and Abdul Sattar and fined Rs650,000, collectively, in a murder case of four people.

The court awarded 10-year imprisonment with a fine Rs50,000, collectively, to two accused, Sabir and Kuhtar, in the same case. The court declared two accused Afzal and Abdul Ghafoor proclaimed offenders besides issuing warrants for the arrest of five more accused.

According to the prosecution, convicts had killed four people and injured nine others, including women and children, over murder enmity in Behroopgarh, Alipur Chattha, on April 24, 2001.