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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Gilani warned on new provinces’ demand* Durrani asks Gilani not to make a mockery of issue, asks him to come up with a clear vision on Saraiki province
Staff Report
LAHORE: Bahawalpur Muttahida Mahaz chief, Senator Muhammad Ali Durrani, on Monday came down hard on Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani for “making mockery of the issue of Saraiki province”.
Addressing a press conference at the Lahore Press Club, Senator Durrani said that rather than coming up with a specific announcement on the public demand for new provinces, the prime minister had made another promise to already deprived people of the most neglected areas of the Punjab.
Durrani said, “Gilani should come up with a clear vision on Saraiki province within next 48 hours and he should also announce the territorial boundaries of the Saraiki province. If he tried to compromise the longstanding demand of revival of Bahawalpur province with Saraiki province, he should be ready to face the public wrath. We will tag him as ‘Yahya Khan Junior’ if he tried to confuse both the legitimate demands”. “In such a case, the people of Bahawalpur province would take out a million march from Sadiq Garh Palace headed by Nawab Salahuddin Abbasi and this people’s rebellion would wipe away all conspiracies against the revival of Bahawalpur province,” he added.
Durrani also criticised Gilani’s announcement to make the new provinces a part of next election manifesto of the ruling party, saying that he wanted to win the next elections by making another false promise to the deprived people of south Punjab as the government had done disservice to the country and its people.
Senator Durrani also asked the Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to take immediate notice of the matter as the people of Bahawalpur expect that the executive head of the province would provide justice to them through suspension and cancellation of such auction in the already underdeveloped area. He asked the Punjab government to cancel the ‘loot sale’ of Bahawalpur state lands.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk