December 09, 2007	Sunday	Ziqa'ad 28, 1428

GUJRANWALA, Dec 8: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan has suggested that opposition parties should unite on one point of agenda — restoration of judges instead of marathon Charter of Demands.

Speaking at the district bar association here on Saturday, the PTI chief said that only independent judiciary could make possible the elections free of rigging.

He said that election under the umbrella of emergency and PCO was a conspiracy against the country while the movement for boycotting elections would continue.

Mr Khan alleged that the caretaker government was corrupt while half of the sitting judges of the apex court should be sent behind bars because of their involvement in corruption.

Ripping to shreds PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto for taking part in the election under protest, he said that on the one hand she was saying that the government was planning rigging while on the other she was eager to contest polls.

BOOKED: Fifty four criminals were booked while eight of them were arrested on the charge of extorting protection money from shopkeepers of Juma and Sunday bazaars in Peoples Colony here on Saturday. Reports said that shopkeepers complained to police that the musclemen of some influential people were extorting Rs50 per head from them and intimidating in case of refusal.

On the directive of DIG Khadim Hussain Bhatti, a police party, led by an SHO, raided there and arrested eight criminals and registered cases against 54 accused.—Correspondent