‘Country in dire straits’

Published December 4, 2006

LAHORE, Dec 3: The country is facing internal and external conflicts and heading towards a dead-end, says MMA vice-president Prof Sajjad Mir.

In a press statement issued on Sunday, he said all institutions had been destroyed in the country and one man had taken over every public institutions besides ‘hijacking’ parliament.

“Those who had taken oath of defending the country are now taking pride in defending the US and the UK at the cost of their own nation. They are the ones shattering the ideological basis of the country and putting the posterity at risk of losing touch with the national history and ideology,” he blasted. —Staff Reporter

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