August 02, 2008	Saturday	Rajab 29, 1429

THATTA, Aug 1: Two legislators of the Shirazi group from Thatta who are affiliated with the PML-Q have threatened to launch a court arrest movement and to go on indefinite hunger strike outside assemblies in Islamabad and Karachi, if the People’s Party government continued political victimisation against their workers.

Addressing a news conference at the press club here on Friday, MNA Syed Ayaz Ali Shah Shirazi and MPA Shah Hussain Shah Shirazi said that 50,000 workers of the Shirazi group were ready to take part in the court arrest movement.

They said that the People’s Party had gained public sympathy due to the assassination of its chairperson Ms Benazir Bhutto but now it was loosing it as the party had distracted from its agenda of “Roti, Kapra Aur Makan” and had diverted all energies and state apparatus in implicating rivals in false cases.

MNA Ayaz Shah said he had filed a privilege motion in the National Assembly and would raise the issue of political victimisation in its next session.

The opposition legislators said that the skyrocketing price hike, deteriorating law and order situation, favouritism and nepotism, non-release of Indus water to downstream Kotri and other such issues had shattered the faith of the common man in the ruling party.Both legislators, who are cousins, claimed that in Thatta, district police and revenue officials had become instrumental in making lives of PML-Q activists and sympathisers miserable.