July 14, 2008	Monday	Rajab 10, 1429

ISLAMABAD, July 13: The Pakistan Muslim League-Q on Sunday severely criticised the PPP-led coalition government’s decision to seek UN investigation into Ms Benazir Bhutto’s assassination and said the move showed incompetence of the government which did not trust its own institutions and invited foreign intervention.

Addressing a press conference after a meeting of the party, secretary-general Mushahid Hussain Sayed said the move would turn Pakistan into another Lebanon.

By doing this, he said, the government had actually accepted that it did not trust the security agencies and institutions of Pakistan. Besides, the move would allow foreign forces access to sensitive places and endanger national security, he said, adding that the PML-Q would oppose and resist the move.

The party leadership condemned foreign troops’ incursions into tribal areas and said the party would raise in parliament the issue of Nato planes’ incursions and bombings of Pakistani areas, which seriously threatened the security of Pakistan.

The party expressed concern over unprecedented price hike and unemployment and said the ruling coalition, instead of resolving the serious issues, was involved in internal wrangling.

Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said that there was virtually no government in the country as leaders of the two major ruling parties were sitting in Dubai and London.

He accused the PML-N government in Punjab and the PPP government in Sindh of having unleashed a reign of terror on workers and leaders of PML-Q.