January 01, 2008	Tuesday	Zilhaj 21, 1428

LAHORE, Dec 31: Punjab PML president and central leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has claimed his party has proofs that Shahbaz Sharif ordered PML-N workers to ransack shops and PML offices following the Rawalpindi incident on Dec 27.

According to a press release issued here on Monday, Mr Elahi said at a party corner meeting in NA-127, township that PML-N had become B team of Pakistan People’s Party and should surrender the party name.

He said during the last three days, public and private property worth billions of rupees was ransacked.

He said five textile mills and three sugar mills, 19 engines of trains, hundreds of jewellery shops, petrol pumps and PML offices were damaged around the country.

He asked the PML workers to come out and restart the election campaign with full force and without any fear.

He said the Sharif brothers were fugitives and they had lost their political identity after supporting the PPP.

He said PML was the name of an ideology and it was founder party of the country and its manifesto was also made in the light of sayings of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The party always worked for the sovereignty, solidarity and unity of the country, he added.

He said in the upcoming elections, the actual fight would be between PML and PPP and claimed his party would emerge as the largest single party in the country.

Elahi said PPP had no ideology and political thinking and alleged that it always damaged the roots of the country.

He said if people wanted continuation of development programmes, they should vote for PML.