TOBA TEK SINGH, Dec 31: PML-Q candidates on Monday took out a `peace rally’ at Kamalia after the PPP activists had broken their election billboards and burnt banners and posters in the wake of the Rawalpindi incident.

The procession, led by PML-Q candidate for NA-94 ex-MNA Riaz Fatyana, marched along Saddar Bazaar, Thana Bazaar and Clock Tower Chowk.

Addressing the gathering, Fatyana condemned the arson and said every Pakistani was grieved over the assassination of Ms Bhutto but trying to cash in on the incident was not a healthy political norm.

He said killers of Benazir Bhutto would soon be arrested, so people should remain calm instead of damaging public and private property.

Meanwhile, PML-Q candidate for NA-93 Mian Kashif Ashfaq and his father Chaudhry Muhammad Ashfaq, a former district nazim, held a meeting outside their election office at grain market, Toba Tek Singh, on Sunday night and lamented that the PPP workers unjustifiably damaged their billboards.

Chaudhry Ashfaq said: “The PPP is my mother party as I started politics from its platform and I had a Benazir Bhutto’s portrait still at my house.”

He condemned her murder and termed it a great loss for the country and national politics. Fateha was also offered for the departed soul.

STRIKE: Lawyers observed a partial strike here on Monday after 11am on the call of Pakistan and Punjab bar councils to press for their demands.

A bar meeting was also held which approved a resolution, demanding the reinstatement of the deposed judges and release of Aitzaz Ahsan and all other arrested political leaders and lawyers.