LAHORE, Sept 8: Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool has warned that legal action will be taken against political parties found violating the Election Commission’s code of conduct.

“If we allow the train march, then there will be long marches and blockades of roads that will only create law and order problems,” he said while talking to reporters at Alhamra and later at Aiwan-i-Karkunan-i-Tehrik-i-Pakistan here on Sunday morning.

The governor said the train march issue had been discussed at a meeting on Saturday. It was decided that a permission for it would lead to further such protest gatherings and should not be granted.

He said the Export Processing Zone (EPZ) inaugurated by him in Faisalabad on Saturday would provide 50,000 jobs in a year. He noted with satisfaction that 20 buildings were being constructed at the EPZ in Sialkot.

The governor said he had also inaugurated a school for paramedics in Faisalabad where government and private companies’ employees would be trained.

The school had been established by the Faisalabad hospital’s Board of Governors, whose members even contributed funds for the purpose.

He said he had also inaugurated a scheme for allotting 100,000 plots to poor people by September 30.

The governor said a lack of housing facilities, illiteracy, poverty and crime were problems that the government was trying to solve without any political motives. He hoped that the people would make the future political government continue working on these problems.