QUETTA, Nov 13: Political parties and labour and students' organizations paid tribute to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, at a condolence meeting held in Zhob , for his untiring struggle against Zionist domination and imperialist forces and for the establishment of an independent state of Palestine.

At the meeting held by the Pukhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, the People's Party Parliamentarians, the Pakistan Muslim League, the PML (Nawaz), the Jamhoori Watan Party, the Awami National Party, the Balochistan National Party (Mengal), the National Party, the Balochistan Labour-Workers Federation Ittehad and various students' organizations lauded the struggle of the late leader.

PMAP Deputy Chairman Abdur Rahim Mandokhel said Yasser Arafat played a vital role in organizing the divided Palestinians to struggle collectively against the Israeli forces occupying their motherland.

He expressed the hope that the political heirs of Yasser Arafat would continue his policies to accomplish the mission of the founder leader of the Al Fatah Organization of establishing their state free of Israeli occupation.