HYDERABAD, Aug 19: People from different walks of life and belonging to different political parties, chiefly Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, continued to hold rallies, danced on streets and distributed sweets across the Sindh province even on Tuesday, a day after Musharraf’s much-wanted resignation.

In Tando Mohammad Khan, the PPP’s minority wing held a big rally to celebrate the occasion. Minority leaders Dr Ashok Kumar, Mohan Lal and Sunil Kumar said in their speeches at the rally that due to great sacrifice of Benazir Bhutto people of Pakistan had won their final battle against dictatorship.

They demanded that the coalition government prosecute Pervez Musharraf for violation of the Constitution, murder of Nawab Akbar Bugti and Balach Marri, massacre of innocent people in Karachi and genocide of Baloch people.

In Hyderabad, Muslim Students Federation-Nawaz observed ‘salvation day’ and held a demonstration outside the press club to celebrate Musharraf’s resignation. They also distributed sweets.

MSF leaders said that Aug 18 was a new beginning for a new Pakistan and its credit went to Nawaz Sharif, Asif Ali Zardari and coalition partners.

In Sanghar, PPP activists distributed ten maunds of sweets among people to express their joy at the resignation. Led by Mir Faizullah Talpur, Mubarak Brohi and Gul Junejo, party workers took out a rally and marched through different villages. Raising slogan against Musharraf, they distributed sweets among people in villages they passed through.

Local party leaders said that it was a victory of 160 million people of Pakistan. Democracy had been restored and a dictator had run away, they said. They demanded trial of all those people who were responsible for the murder of Ms Benazir Bhutto and Nawab Akbar Bugti.

The activists of PPP and Jamhoori Watan Party also held a joint rally with the participants dancing on the streets and distributing sweets in utmost joy.

Thousands of people belonging to Bugti tribe came from more than 50 villages and gathered at Kot Nawab near Sanghar from where they proceeded to the town in a rally. They were later joined by PPP activists. Shahid Bugti, Ahmed Ali Bugti, Qalandar Bux Dero, Qasim Zardari and Ghulam Ali Wassan who led the rally said that Musharraf was murderer of innocent people and root cause of all evils. They alleged that he was responsible for the murder of Nawab Akbar Bugti, Balach Marri and Benazir Bhutto.

They said that they would take revenge of the murders and would not allow him to flee the country. If he did run away, they would bring him back from any corner of the world, they said.

Thousand of Bugtis vowed to avenge the deaths of Bugtis in Balochistan. The participants of the rally had brought with them an effigy of Pervez Musharraf, which they beat up with shoes.

In Mirpurkhas, PML-N’s labour wing held a rally, which marched on the main roads of the city before terminating at the press club. Local party leader Liaquat Ali Shah said that after Musharraf’s resignation real democracy had been restored in the country. Musharraf should now be made to face accountability for his actions in office, he said.

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