February 01, 2008	Friday	Muharram 22, 1429

DIR, Jan 31: Leaders of All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) have said that the country has been short of everything except crises and everything has become dearer except human blood here because of the flawed policies of the government.

As part of its campaign for the boycott of upcoming general elections, APDM held a mammoth public meeting at the High School Ground here on Thursday. Strict security measures were put in place on this occasion as every person was made to pass through security gates installed at the entrance of the venue apart from body search. Pamphlets were also distributed among the people urging them to boycott polls.

Addressing the gathering, APDM convener Mehmood Khan Achakzai, Jamaat-i-Islami amir Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Pakistan National Party president Abdul Hayee Baloch and Sindh Taraqipasand Party chief Haidar Malah said that the upcoming election was a farce and was being held to impose American agents on the country who could continue bloodshed in the country. They said that it was very unfortunate that thousands of countrymen were killed at the behest of the USA.

“Unfortunately, our own people are being bombed, killed and made to live in refugee camps in their own country,” they said.

They alleged that after helping US to shower bombs on Afghanistan, Musharraf was now killing innocent citizens in Balochistan, Waziristan, Swat, Bajaur and elsewhere in the country to please the US. “The instability and bomb blasts in the country was a result of the flawed policies of the government,” Qazi remarked.