HYDERABAD, March 28: The PML-N will organise a big public gathering in Hyderabad as a rejoinder to the Liaquat Bagh’s Tuesday meeting addressed by President Pervez Musharraf.

This was stated by a local PML-N leader and former MNA Sahibzada Shabbir Hassan Ansari on Wednesday.

Nawaz Sharif and Ghaus Ali Shah will address the meeting from London which will be attended by the opposition leaders.

Sahibzada Ansari, addressing the press conference said that since Oct ’99 Pervez Musharraf has exercised unbridled powers leading to the murder of Nawab Akbar Bugti and attack on the judiciary.

He said, through presidential reference Musharraf first rendered the Chief Justice non-functional.

However, protests by the lawyers has made a new history, he said adding the government's days were numbered and no military dictator had ever left power voluntarily unless he was made to go like Gen Ayub and Gen Zia.

Leaders from the ARD, Pakhtoonkhaw Milli Awami Party, Awami National Party (ANP), Mutahedda Malis-e-Amal would be invited in the meeting, he stated. He condemned the unrest in Balochistan and tribal areas where security officials were being targeted.

He criticised the performance of Hesco and demanded the Chairman Wapda to take action against the responsible officials.

He lashed out at Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) for providing contaminated water, causing waterborne diseases among people.

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