KARACHI, April 14: Leaders of the provincial chapter of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy on Friday demanded that federal and the four provincial governments should be dismissed immediately, military should return to the barracks and an impartial caretaker should be set up for elections in the country.
This was contained in a resolution adopted in ARD’s protest meeting held in solidarity with the strike call given by the religious parties to condemn the Nishtar Park blast and the government’s failure to maintain law and order in the province and ensure security to the people.
The component parties of the ARD Sindh also staged a sit-in to express solidarity with the Sunni Tehreek and condemn the blast at Nishtar Park.
The provincial leaders and activists of the PPP, PML-N, JWP, PDP, PML-J and other parties were carrying party flags and placards and raised slogans against Musharraf, Governor Ishratul ibad and Muttahida Qaumi Movement leaders.
Terming the Nishtar Park blast target killing, ARD leaders Qaim Ali Shah, Nisar Khuhro, Zain Ansari, Basharat Mirza, Mairaj Muhammad Khan and others said the incident proved that the present regime failed totally in restoration of peace.
They said that it was also failure of all the agencies and demanded that the culprits be arrest immediately. They said that more than 700 people had been killed during the last two years but Gen Musharraf was insisting that there would be no change in the Sindh government.
ARD leaders said that time had come and people would throw out the provincial government as they were fed up of lawlessness, price hike and unemployment. They said that the exiled leaders, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, would come back and save the country from those who plundered it through privatization of national assets in throwaway prices.
They claimed that regime was trying to “cover up” and find a scapegoat to shift the blame for which they held the government responsible.
The ARD leaders said that the present government was a security risk and should be immediately removed.
They alleged that the regime was systematically trying to suppress the voice of deprived people and in order to remain at the helm of affairs it was resorting to all sorts of tactics.
They called for impartial investigation and expressed no confidence in investigation by the present government whom they blamed for acting at the behest of its foreign sponsors.
Those others who participated in the protest demonstration were Qaim Ali Shah, Nisar Khuhro, Zain Ansari, Rashid Rabbani, Fauzia Wahab, Sharfun Nisa Leghari, Shama Mithani, Shela Raza, Afaq Shahid, Malik Muhammad Khan, Meraj Muhammad Khan, Masroor Ahsan, Waqar Mehdi, Rafiq Engineer, Rahil Iqbal, Ejaz Durrani, Latif Mughal, Shaikh Majeed, Ghazi Ghulam Mustafa, Zahid Rafiq Butt, Nihal Hashmi, Saleem Zia, Zubair Khan, Habibuddin Junaidi and others.
Addressing the large gathering, Pakistan People’s Party Sindh President Syed Qaim Ali Shah held Sindh government responsible for the tragedy and demanded that it should step down by conceding responsibility of the deadly incident, adds PPI.
He said that scores of political leaders, Ulema, religious and social figures had been assassinated; law and order situation was deteriorating; citizens were not safe on streets but the federal and provincial governments were unconcerned about the miseries of people.
He demanded immediate removal of both federal and all provincial governments, formation of an interim government and holding free and fair general elections.
The leader of the opposition in Sindh Assembly, Nisar Khuhro, condemning the blast and killing of ST leaders, Ulema and common people on the eve of Eid Miladun Nabi said that the provincial government instead of protecting lives and properties of people was engaged in their massacre.
Nisar Khuhro said despite a number of assassinations, political parties in Sindh would continue their struggle for getting people rid of terrorists.
On the occasion, Fateha was offered for the martyrs of Nishter Park tragedy.
KARACHI, April 14: Leaders of the provincial chapter of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy on Friday demanded that federal and the four provincial governments should be dismissed immediately, military should return to the barracks and an impartial caretaker should be set up for elections in the country.
