March 30, 2008	Sunday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 21, 1429

THATTA, March 29: PPP legislators, district bodies of PML-N and PPP, members of civil society and leaders of public opinion have appealed to political parties, particularly the PML-N not to accept the PML-Q affiliated Shirazi Group in its ranks as the group has a history of betrayal.

Talking to Dawn on Saturday, the PPP MNA, Dr Abdul Wahid Soomro, MPAs Sassui Palijo, Abdul Jalil Memon and Humera Alwani said elders of Shirazis like Syed Aijaz Ali Shah Shirazi and sitting District Nazim Syed Shafqat Hussain Shah Shirazi hold record of betrayal and lust for power.

Shirazi group had looted and plundered national exchequer, usurped national wealth, deforested Thatta, implicated thousands of political activists of various parties in false cases, encouraged criminals should never be accepted by the PML (N), they said.

Acquitted: District and Sessions Judge, Thatta, Abdul Malik Gadi has acquitted the JSQM Chairman Bashir Khan Qureshi, Dr Niaz Kalani, Mohammed Rahimoon, Suleman Palijo, Rehman Shah and 29 other activist in a sedition case lodged in December 2000, here on Saturday.