HYDERABAD, April 12: The Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) will hold a public meeting at Pakka Qila ground on May 7, with the hopes that the MQM would reciprocate the gesture, wholeheartedly.

The Central Committee member and former MNA Shahibzada Shabbir Ansari addressing a press conference on Tuesday said the next month's meeting is being arranged in connection with Youm-i-Takbeer (in remembrance to nuclear explosions of May 28, 1998).

The meeting would start at 4pm with the address of Mian Nawaz Sharif and later of Syed Ghous Ali Shah and other central and provincial leaders, he said. The party had decided to launch a mass contact movement prior to the meeting. JI:

General Secretary, Jamat-e-Islami, Sindh chapter, Rashid Naseem was reportedly amazed at those, thriving on extortion and creating lawlessness and ethnicity, talking about revolution.

He was speaking at a public meeting at Gaja Mori stop on the city's outskirts on Monday.

Almost half of the parliamentarians are in possession of fake degrees and now were bent upon dissolution of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) he alleged and vowed to continue opposing this move.

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