April 07, 2008	Monday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 29, 1429

THATTA, April 6: Dozens of Pakistan People’s Party workers stormed the offices of Pakistan Muslim League-Q on the National Highway late on Saturday night and occupied the office after ejecting PML-Q’s office-bearers from the building.

Raising slogans the highly charged workers hoisted party flags on the building and hung portraits of Benazir Bhutto and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on the walls of the PML-Q office, which was once residence of chief officer of the district council.

When the Shirazis came to power, they forced the officer to vacate the residence on the highway in front of the National Bank of Pakistan branch, and set up the party office in the premises.

The information secretary of PPP’s Thatta chapter and member of the party’s Sindh Council, Imtiaz Qureshi, told this scribe that after having lost credibility among the masses the Shirazis were using the office premises for their personal affairs.

The PPP was the only party, which had the right to use the building, he said. The workers moved to take over the building after learning about plans to convert the building into PML-N office in case Nawaz Sharif agreed to take Shirazis in, said the sources.

The PPP activists danced to party songs and kept on beating drums in front of the office for hours into the night.

In Dadu at least 170 Pakistan Muslim League-Q workers were booked by Dadu town police on Saturday for blocking the Indus Highway and attacking police officials during a protest rally.

SHO Dadu town police, Asghar Birhamani, lodged an FIR for blocking the Indus Highway and attacking police. The protest was held three days back in Dadu after arrest of six PML-Q workers from a hotel of PML-Q leader Ashique Hussain Zour.

PML-Q local leaders Ashique Hussain Zour, Abid Hussain Ghaloo, manger of former federal minister Liaquat Jatoi’s cinema, Mohammad Hassan Jatoi, and PML-Q workers and other unidentified people were booked in the case.