May 16, 2007	Wednesday	Rabi-us-Sani 28, 1428

QUETTA, May 15: An opposition parties’ public meeting adopted several resolutions one of which demanded registering of murder and attempt to murder cases against President Pervez Musharraf, governor and chief minister of Sindh besides MQM leader Altaf Hussain for the brutal killing of innocent people in Karachi on May 12.

ANP leader Dr Inyatullah Khan chaired the meeting at the Bacha Chowk on Tuesday to pay homage to the people killed in Karachi.

Usman Kakar (PMAP), Habib Jalib Baloch (BNP-Mengal), Dr Ishaq Baloch (NP), Bismillah Khan Kakar (PPP Parliamentarians), Maulana Abdul Haq Hashmi (JI), Ayaz Khan Swati (PML-N) and Nazar Baloch (TI) addressed the meeting.

The speakers vowed to continue their struggle till the Musharraf government had been toppled, which had plunged the country into political chaos. Another resolution dubbing the MQM as a fascist organization held it responsible for the terrorist act on May 12 that sabotaged the welcome reception organised by opposition parties for the chief justice at the Karachi airport.

The third resolution termed the filing of the unconstitutional presidential reference as an assault on the judiciary by the army ruler and demanded that it be withdrawn immediately in order to reinstate Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.

Another resolution said that the resolution of political problems depended on the ending of the military government, returning of the army to the barracks, and forming of an interim government in consultation with democratic political parties to hold transparent polls supervised by an independent election commission.

The fifth resolution demanded ending the military operation in Balochistan in which hundreds of Baloch had been killed and stressed that all issues should be settled through negotiations.

The resolution demanded lifting the ban on the return of PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto and PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif to the country so that both could contribute in the political process. Speakers paid rich tribute to those killed in Karachi that included the workers of the ANP, PPP, PML-N, PMAP and JI.