LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Punjab organiser Chaudhry Sarwar has called upon the PML-N government to launch a clean-up operation against banned organisations and their facilitators to weed out terrorism from the country.

In a meeting with PTI Central Organiser Jahangir Tareen at his office on Monday, Mr Sarwar asked the Punjab government to hold an independent inquiry into murders and corruption charges, leveled by PML-N men, against party leaders to bring out true facts before the people.

Mr Sarwar said terrorism damaged the well-being of Pakistan like a cancer and it was high time that the nation unite and stand by the Pakistan Army supporting the National Action Plan. He said the Punjab government’s role in action against banned organisations was questionable and now it should launch a fresh operation without considering any kind of compromises. He said terrorists’ facilitators should also be punished and made an example for others.

He said the PTI had taken a clear stand on terrorism that not only terrorists but their facilitators were also the enemies of the nation and the country.

Both Mr Tareen and Mr Sarwar also announced launching a mass contact campaign for the upcoming local body elections. They said the incumbent rulers had not fulfilled any of its election campaign promises with the people of Pakistan and were busy in its jugglery of figures and tall claims.

At a news conference at Lahore Press Club, PTI Punjab deputy organiser and PTI Punjab media task force convener Omar Cheema and Jamshaid Iqbal Cheema demanded that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif remove ministers from his cabinet, who had relations with banned organisations.

They also demanded the chief minister constitute a commission to investigate into the allegations leveled by federal minister Abid Sher Ali’s father Chaudhry Sher Ali against Punjab law minister Rana Sanaullah.

Omer Cheema alleged that Rana Sanaullah was also accused in PTI member Haq Nawaz’s murder in Faisalabad and Model Town multiple murders. He said Mr Sharif would equally be considered guilty of these murders, if he did not order investigations into Chaudhry Sher Ali’s allegations.

He regretted that the PML-N government was using security and protocols for themselves and its cronies, while honest and upright people like retired Col Shuja Khanzada were not even given due security. He said 100 million population in Punjab was also at the mercy of criminals as policy was least bothering about their lives and properties’ protection.

Published in Dawn, August 18th, 2015

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