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FAISALABAD, Aug 26: The PML-N will make a clean sweep in the general elections for candidates of the government backed parties have no roots among the masses.
This was claimed by former MNA and PML-N central leader Chaudhry Sher Ali, who freed recently from jail after about three years, while talking to newsmen here on Monday.
He alleged the PML-QA was a junta of looters who parted ways with the PML-N and other political parties just to save their skin from military rulers.
The Faisalabad was still a PML-N fort and all its candidates would win the elections with a thumping majority, he said. The entire government machinery was being used to malign the anti-government politicians, he alleged. Meanwhile, dozens of former councillors, Nazimeen, Naibs of union councils and prominent political figures visited the house of Sher Ali and assured their full support.
RECOVERED: The local police on Monday claim to have recovered 86 illicit weapons during the last fortnight.
Special teams constituted by the district police officer seized weapons, including 31 revolvers, 25 pistols, 12 guns and six rifles.
Police also arrested 29 people and sent them to jail after the registration of cases against them.
STRANGLED: An elderly woman was strangled to death by two youths on Monday over a financial dispute in Chak 189-RB in the limits of Chak Jhumra police station.
Muhammad Asif and his accomplice strangled Ilyas Bibi and sped away. She died on the spot.
