SIALKOT: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MNA Asad Umar has ruled out the postponement of party’s Aug 14 Azadi March, saying the day will be a “Judgment Day” for the rulers.

He stated this at a meeting of party workers on Friday. Local PTI leaders retired Brig Muhammad Aslam Ghuman, Bao Amjad Latif Butt, Azeem Noori Ghuman, Aliya Hina, Khwaja Arif Ahmed, Mian Masud, Barrister Daud Ghazanvi and Rauf Bajwa were also present. The MNA was in the city in connection with a public mobilisation campaign regarding the Azadi March.

Mr Umar said the march would give the nation freedom paving the way to make Pakistan a state as envisaged by the Quaid-i-Azam and Allama Iqbal. He said the rulers would be impeached for conducting a massive engineered rigging in the 2013 general elections, in this regard.

He dubbed the incumbent rulers dictators, saying they were adopting dictatorial aptitude towards the nation.

He said the time had come that the nation take to the streets to punish the rigging experts and oust them from the power.

He said the dictatorial attitude of the rulers was creating a gulf of gap between the government and the masses as they were busy damaging democracy in the country. He said the PTI did not want to derail the democratic system in the country but wanted to see real and durable democracy flourishing here with the power of votes.

KILLS: A youth shot dead his widowed mother in Sialkot city’s Baabey Beri-Naikapura on Friday, according to police.

Khalid, 18, shot in the head of his mother Mukhatran Bibi, 44, after arguments over a property. She died instantly.

Khalid was the only brother of his four sisters and his father died 10 months ago.

Naikapura police registered a case with no arrest and shifted the body to hospital for autopsy.

Published in Dawn, July 19th , 2014