LAHORE, July 5: PML-N MPAs have resolved to resign from the Punjab Assembly if Gen Musharraf tries to get himself re-elected as the president for a second term.

They unanimously adopted a resolution at a meeting of the parliamentary party held here on Wednesday with Rana Sanaullah Khan in the chair pledging to abide by any decision to be taken by the party leadership on the issue.

Lauding Mian Nawaz Sharif’s “struggle for democracy”, they said they would earnestly follow the path to be decided by him for continuing this struggle.

The meeting declared that the incumbent government had failed in solving problems of the masses rather “wrong” policies of the “unconstitutional” and “undemocratic” rulers had complicated the problems.

It said the country had been made a market of imported crops.

On one hand poverty was forcing people to commit suicides while the rulers had enhanced their expenses by billions in the recent budget, it added.

It alleged that assets of the country were being sold at throwaway prices and the Supreme Court verdict on steel mills privatisation was an evidence of the rulers’ corruption. —Staff Reporter