FAISALABAD, March 29: A rally under the banner of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) will be taken out on April 10 in connection with its mass contact campaign over the Iraqi crisis and the LFO issue.

According to its organizers, the rally will start from Abdullahpur Intersection led by Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, Makhdoom Amin Faheem, Raza Rabbani, Jawed Hashmi, Zulfiqar Khosa, Qasim Zia, and other central leaders.

The participants will parade on different city roads and reach Clock Tower Intersection where their leaders would address them.

Talking to newsmen here on Saturday, Punjab PPP Secretary-General Rana Aftab Ahmed Khan said that scores of political workers and people belonging to all walks of life would attend the rally and public meeting for which instructions had already been issued to tehsil, district and divisional office-bearers of component political parties of the ARD.

Special caravans from adjoining tehsils and cities would reach Faisalabad for the success of ARD’s rally, he said.

It would not be a show of power against the government but to reactivate the political workers on the most sensitive time of history when a super-power was busy in ruining an unarmed nation, he said.

Criticizing the government’s foreign policy, he said the foreign minister as well as the head of the country had failed to take a positive and solid stand over the issue of aggression on Iraq by the US-led forces.

He demanded that the government should increase pressure on America for vacating the air bases of Pakistan for no special operation was going on in Afghanistan.

He said the presence of foreign troops in the country was a major threat for national sovereignty.

He said that the former MPA, Rana Farooq Saeed Khan of Samundri, had been nominated the district PPP president as the seat was vacant after the resignation of ex-MNA Chaudhry Muhammad Ilyas.