QUETTA, Aug 5: Former prime minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali said on Sunday that “Chaudhry brothers” were history. He would make no compromise with them because they had conspired to bring his rivals into the party, he added.

Mr Jamali said at the inauguration ceremony of a Rs480 million bypass road between Dera Allah Yar and Jacobabad that the Chaudhry brothers’ influence was confined to Gujrat, Lahore and some other parts of the Punjab.

He claimed that he had never compromised on principles in his entire political career and would remain steadfast in future too. The country was passing through a critical phase and only a United Muslim League could extricate it from the difficult situation, he said adding that it was the responsibility of Muslim Leaguers to make efforts for uniting the party.

Mr Jamali claimed that Nasirabad and Jaffarabad districts had remained strongholds of Muslim League since 1935 and both the districts would become a fort of the united league and protect the solidarity and integrity of the country.

He came down hard on the chairperson of People’s Party Parliamentarians, Ms Benazir Bhutto, for hiding facts about her meeting with President Musharraf at Abu Dhabi and wondered how a political party that concealed truth from its people could serve the nation. He, however, praised Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Nawaz Sharif for ‘his steadfastness’.

Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif, Altaf Hussain and other politicians who were in exile should now return to contribute to the progress of the country, he said.

Mr Jamali expressed pleasure at the release of PML-N leader, Javed Hashmi, and hoped that he would help strengthen the political and democratic institutions.

Provincial Minister Mir Abdur Rehman Jamali and Jaffarabad District Nazim Khan Mohammad Jamali also addressed the inauguration ceremony.