PML-Q identity to be preserved

Published October 15, 2003

OKARA, Oct 14: The groups that have merged with the PML are respectable and will be adjusted in provinces and the centre, but we do not want to lose PML-Q’s identity.

This was stated by provincial Education Minister Imran Masood while talking to newsmen here on Tuesday on the occasion of party organization.

After the merger of various PML groups, the Punjab government has started party’s organization under the supervision of the education minister.

Imran Masood along with Kasur tehsil Nazim Haji Mohammed Rashid and MPA Zahoor Daha of PML-Q’s organization committee presided over a party lawmakers meeting.

After mutual consultation, former district council chairman Advocate Mian Mohammed Moeen Wattoo was nominated district president, Nazim Rai Mohammed Shafi Kharl vice-president and Okara Market Committee chairman Mian Mohammed Iqbal secretary-general.

Later speaking to a gathering, the minister said only the PML-Q was being reorganized and not the united PML, and this was being done on the instructions of the chief minister.

He said: “A policy is being devised at the centre for the adjustment of the groups merged with the PML.”

STRANGLED: A woman was strangled to death allegedly by her two brothers-in-laws in Chak Chandi near Mandi Ahmadabad here on Tuesday.

Reports said Mohammed Amin distributed his land among four sons some time back and kept two kanals with him. Later, he gave some portion of this land to one of his sons, Mohammed Ali. Upon it, his two other sons — Amanat and Liaqat — went to the house of Ali and started beating him. When his wife came to his rescue, they strangled her to death and threw her body in a canal.

CRUSHED: A seventh class girl student was crushed to death by a bus in Bonga Mibah here on Tuesday.

Naveeda was going to school along with her brother, Fakhar, on a bicycle when a bus hit them. Naveeda sustained critical injuries and died instantly.

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