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SAHIWAL, Nov 24: PML-N acting president Makhdoom Javed Hashmi has said that the party will organize public meetings after Eid to mobilise the people of Pakistan for a referendum on the issue of Mian Nawaz Sharif’s return to the country.
Speaking at a big public meeting here on Sunday, Mr Hashmi said the PML-N had bagged only 19 seats due to adjustments with the PPP and MMA. Therefore, its popularity could not be assessed by the number of seats it had bagged.
He said the popularity of President Pervez Musharaf had declined due to the controversial Legal Framework Order. The PML-N participated in the elections to lay bare the plans of the military government.
He said the winning candidates of PML-N would confront the engineered success of PML-Q in the parliament besides working for restoration of the constitution in letter and spirit and curbing the price hike.
The caravan of Mr Hashmi included Khawaja Saad Rafiq, Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman and Yawar Zaman. They were welcomed by PML-N district president Malik Nadeem Kamran, secretary-general Ehsanul Haq Idrees, I. Z. A. Bhatti, Shaheed Ahmed Poswal and Tahir Hamid.
RUN OVER: A student died after being run over by a speeding fire-brigade vehicle on a bridge here, police said.
Waheed Ahmed, a second-year student at a local college, was coming to the city from Chak 133/9-L. Run over by the Sahiwal Municipal Committee vehicle, he was taken to the DHQ hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
The driver had escaped. The Grain Market police have registered the case.
ROBBERIES: Four persons in police uniform looted a hawker in Kamir (Chak 119/9-L).
The hawker, Ghulam Mohammad Bodla, told the Kamir police that he was on his way to the market to purchase goats when he was intercepted by the impostors’ car. Mr Bodla was accused of possessing illicit arms, taken to a barren place instead of the police station, deprived of Rs11,000 in cash, a wristwatch and some other valuables, tied up with rope and thrown in a field.
Meanwhile, Shah Kot police were told that three armed dacoits had deprived a Mian Chunnu councillor, Wali Mohammad of Rs6,200 and his motorbike (MNE-5283) near Chak 37/14-L.
