PPP leader calls for fair polls

Published August 10, 2004

MIRPURKHAS, Aug 9: Nawab Mohammad Yousuf Talpur, PPP MNA, who is supervising the pray's election campaign in NA-229, Tharparker, has alleged that the government has launched a victimisation campaign against PPP workers and leaders in the district.

He also alleged that water courses of PPP workers were being blocked. However, he said in a statement that they would reject all kinds of repressive measures. He added that the August 18 by-elections would prove that the PPP was the only federal party having strong roots in the people if polls were held in a fair manner.

Later, talking to a party delegation at his residence in Kunri, the PPP leader said that the government was trying to create a 1971-like situation in Balochistan and demanded immediate end to the operation there.

He said that people of Sindh would a stand by their Baloch brothers and asked the government to held talks with Baloch leaders instead of using coercive means to implement its schemes opposed by the people of Balochistan.

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