October 1, 2007	Monday	Ramazan 18, 1428

NAWABSHAH, Sept 30: The opposition leader in Sindh Assembly, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, has reiterated that Pakistan People’s Party will never strike any deal with the generals, who have been periodically insulting the unanimously-approved Constitution of the country.

Mr Khuhro said at a gathering of party workers who were observing the 24th death anniversary of MRD martyrs in Punhal Khan Chandio village 20 kilometres from here late on Saturday night that the present rulers and their allies had failed to initiate even a single mega project in Sindh.

Chief Minister Dr. Arbab Ghulam Rahim would not be allowed to run away, people would close Mithi border to take him to task, he remarked.

The party had laid down innumerable sacrifices to uphold the democracy the party principles, he said and added that Ms Benazir Bhutto had lived nine years in exile but never compromised on principles.

Implicitly criticising Sharif brothers, Mr Khuhro said that the so-called champions of democracy signed an agreement and then backed out because they could not pass even a single night in jail.

They kept people in the dark for seven years and then came up with the revelation that the contract they had signed with the military rulers required them to be out of country for five years and not 10 years.

The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal had asked begged vote in the name of Holy book but latter deceived people by strengthening Gen Musharraf by aiding him through 17th amendment, he said.

He paid rich tributes to the 16 party workers of MRD movement who were martyred by the army while reading the holy Quran. People’s Party did not break any records it made them. They had made a record in Lahore in 1986 and would do the same on Oct 18, he claimed.

He believed that Ms Benazir Bhutto would become the prime minister for the third time after her return on Oct 18th. General Musharraf could try to stop her if he had power, he challenged.

Jam Saifullah Dharejo, member of provicnail assembly and president of Sukkur chapter of PPP, said that if people had taken to streets after Zia took over, he would never have dared hang him.

People of Sindh were being deprived of their rights and there were conspiracies aimed at bifurcated Sindh to convert Sindhis into an insignificant minority, he feared.

Party leaders Ghulam Qadir Chandio, Haji Allah Bux Lakho, Ali Nawaz Chandio, Mohammed Hussain Bughio and some family members of MRD martyrs also spoke at the gathering.

DEMONSTRATION: Dozens of people belonging to Bhangwar community staged a demonstration outside the local press club on Sunday in protest against local police for raiding their homes and arresting two of their relatives.

Ali Raza Bhangwar, Mo-hammed Haleem Bhangwar and Mohammed Mallah who led the protest told journalists that Sub-Inspector Eidan Siyal along with a police party raided Hazar Khan Bhangwar village, broke into their homes and took away Hazar Khan and Mohammed Fazal after beating up their families late on Saturday night.

They said that a magistrate conducted a raid on taluka police station after they complained to the court the illegal arrest but the police by then had shifted them to some undisclosed place and later registered a fake FIR against them.

They said that police had accused them of sheltering kidnapped women and children of Solangi tribe while they had nothing to do with the crime.

They demanded that their relatives should be released immediately and the FIR should be withdrawn.

Police, meanwhile, booked 11 persons on charges of firing on a police party. Police said that a police party comprising personnel from B-section and taluka police stations raided Hazar Khan Bhangwar village for the recovery of some women and children of Solangi tribe.

When the party neared the village, some people opened fire on them while others escaped with the kidnappees in a car, police claimed adding that the police, however, arrested Fazal Mohammed and Hazar Khan Bhangwar and booked 11 others.