September 17, 2006	Sunday	Sha'aban 23, 1427

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GUJRANWALA, Sept 16: The PML-N convention has demanded that the army operation in Waziristan and Balochistan and killing of innocent people in the name of war against terror should be stopped while all issues be decided through dialogues.

The convention, held here on Saturday, was organized by PML-N lawyers forum while party’s provincial chief Sardar Zulfikar Ali Khosa, additional secretary-general Chaudhry Jaffer Iqbal, MNA Khawaja Saad Rafiq, central joint secretary Khurram Dastagir Khan, former provincial secretary-general Zaeem Qadari and others spoke on the occasion.

The speakers criticised the government asking President Pervaiz Musharraf to quit both offices of the army chief and the presidentship.

The army should be sent to barracks from all civil departments. They said a caretaker government should be formed under which an independent election commission should be constituted to hold fair and transparent elections.

Condemning the killing of Nawab Akber Bugti and the arrest of political leaders and workers, they demanded that all the arrested workers, including PPP’s Yousaf Raza Gillani and PML-N’s Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, should be released immediately.

They also called upon the government to allow former prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto and former chief minister Shehbaz Sharif to return to the country.

HONOUR KILLING: A teenaged girl and her lover were stabbed to death by their relatives in Aimanabad on Saturday.

Reports said that deceased `S’ and her cousin Safdar were present in their house when accused Amanat Ali, Nazir, Saleem, Muhammad Ishaq and others stabbed them to death and escaped from the scene. Their bodies were shifted to the local DHQ Hospital for autopsy.

Aimanabad police have registered a murder case against all the accused.

COMMITS SUICIDE: A young girl committed suicide by hanging herself with a ceiling fan over some domestic issue in Qila Dedar Singh on Saturday.

Deceased Zahida Bibi quarreled with her mother after which she took her life in dejection. Her body was removed to the local civil hospital for autopsy.

Police are looking into the matter.