KARACHI:

Published March 21, 2005
KARACHI, March 20: Sindh Home Minister Rauf Siddiqui has said that according permission to the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal for public meeting was an exemplary tradition of a democratic government. The minister was talking to newsmen at the mausoleum of Quaid-i-Azam, where he had come along with other members of the cabinet who were accompanying Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim, Punjab Chief Minister Pervez Elahi and NWFP Chief Minister Akram Durrani.

?We asked the MMA to delay their public meeting for 10 days as a lot of economic activities are taking place these days including holding of Textile Exhibition in which foreign delegates are taking part in large numbers followed by another important exhibition, but they (MMA) were insisting on holding their public meeting on 20th. The government allowed them to hold the meeting as per their demand,? the minister said.

?APP

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