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MUZAFFARGARH, June 22: District Nazim Sardar Qayyum Jatoi will welcome the Chief Justice of Pakistan at Qadirpur Raan on Saturday (today).
The Sardar told this correspondent on Friday that he would welcome the CJP with 100 buses full of his followers.
He said the enthusiasm of the people showed that even 100 buses would not be enough to accommodate the workers from Alipur and Jatoi.
Besides Mr Jatoi, the District Bar Association, Muzaffargarh, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal and the Pakistan Seraiki Party have announced their participation in the reception for the CJP.
Muzaffargarh DBA president Zubaidul Islam Sherwani said a caravan of 20 wagons would go to Multan. District president Mian Ihsan Karim Qureshi and Mustafa Khar Junior will lead the PML-N and Rana Umar Daraz the MMA workers.
ON-FOOT JOURNEY: A large number of lawyers, political workers and people from all walks of life accorded warm welcome to four lawyers on their arrival here on Friday. Amjad Majeed, Aqeel Hamdani, Aftab Baloch and Nasir Khan have taken up journey on foot up to Multan to welcome the CJP on June 23.
Earlier, hundreds of lawyers and people saw off lawyers when they set out on their journey from Dera Ghazi Khan on Thursday at 6pm.
They told this correspondent here that when they started journey, dozens of people walked along with them two or three miles.
Advocate Amjad Majeed said wherever they went, though it was night, people gathered along the road and greeted them.
He said truck drivers and people welcomed them at 4am when they reached a roadside hotel at Ghazi Ghat for a cup of tea. The hotel owner did not charge them for the tea.
At 6am, when they reached Chowk Qureshi, the news about their arrival had already spread in the town and people showered them with rose petals.
Seeing warm welcome accorded to them, 10 lawyers from Muzaffargarh announced that they would walk to Multan along with them.
TRANSPORTER’S OFFER: A transporter has offered his vehicles free of cost for the rally of CJP on his arrival in Multan on Saturday.
Malik Hazir of Ghulam Ali Wala offered his three wagons to the District Bar Association for carrying people to Multan to receive the CJP.
He said when President Musharraf had come to Dera Ghazi Khan on May 24, police impounded his wagons and did not pay him anything. They had detained him and his two drivers for three days and did not even give food and place to sleep.
