DERA GHAZI KHAN, Feb 24: Commuters are facing great inconvenience for the traffic police are engaged in impounding wagons and buses for the public meeting of President Pervez Musharraf in Multan on Saturday.

Sources said that the district administration had given traffic police the task of arranging around 100 vehicles. They said that the impounded vehicles would be handed over to the DCO in Multan for transporting participants of the public meeting to the venue.

They further said that no one, including the District Nazim or any political figure, had been invited from Dera Ghazi Khan to attend the public meeting in Multan. Requesting anonymity, a traffic police officer said that we were trying to meet the target while the rent and fuel expenses would be borne by the district government.

Wagon and bus stands all across the district are presenting deserted look as most of the owners have withdrawn their vehicles from the road. When contacted, District Naib Nazim Javed Iqbal Qaisrani said the visit of President Pervez Musharraf to Dera was expected next month. Therefore, he said the public representatives of the Dera district were not officially invited to Multan.

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