February 05, 2008	Tuesday	Muharram 26, 1429

MITHI, Feb 4: Pakistan Peoples Party’s senior vice-chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim has said that PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has acknowledged that the flawed policy, wrong priorities and improper decisions of the Musharraf government have created unemployment, inflation, lawlessness and shortage of flour and electricity.

Addressing public gatherings in Islamkot and Nagarparkar on Sunday, he said the PML-Q leader had said that such mistakes would not be repeated but he wanted to ask President Pervez Musharraf if he would still support those who had pushed the country towards economic and political instability.

Mr Fahim said the PPP would form governments at the centre and in the four provinces after the election and take measures to safeguard the fundamental rights of the people without any discrimination.

“Big guns of Thar have continued treating the Tharis atrociously and sending them to jail to get their votes but one can get votes only by holding the voters in esteem and showing affection for them,” he said.

He demanded that the government should grant amnesty to the PPP activists who had been implicated and arrested in false cases pertaining to recent riots. He said the PPP would grant amnesty to those implicated in the cases after coming to power.

He warned officials not to obey unlawful orders, saying that those involved in harassing people would be taken to task.

Sindh PPP president Syed Qaim Ali Shah said the anti-democracy elements who had gotten former prime minister Z.A. Bhutto hanged and his daughter assassinated were reluctant to hold election.

He said the political wisdom of slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto had forced Gen (retd) Musharraf to leave the military and hold election.

He said those who were under the impression that registration of fake cases against PPP activists and sending them behind the bars would weaken the PPP had been proven wrong. “The rule of wickedness of the Arbabs in Thar will end soon,” he said.

Speaking in Nagarparkar, PPP candidate for Sindh Assembly seat PS-62 Sharjeel Inam Memon said Dec 27, 20007, was also the day of the demise of the PML-Q.

He said Thar lacked water, employment, electricity, health and other basic facilities although the last prime minister as well as chief minister had been elected from the area.

PPP leaders Pir Aftab Hussain Shah Jilani, Nawab Yousuf Talpur, Mahesh Kumar Malani, Pesumal Akrani, Dost Ali Rahoomo, Gul Mohammad Laat, Dr Khatumal Jeevan, Abdul Malik, Pir Amjad Siddiqui, Faqir Sher Mohammad Bilalani and Shagufta Jumani also spoke.