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Saturday, October 08, 2011
Parties having militant wings be banned: Nawaz* PML-N president says govt should send references against such political parties to Supreme Court
* Politics should not be done at the cost of peace
MULTAN: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif on Friday said that the government should ban all such political parties who have militant wings and send references against them to the Supreme Court.
Addressing a press conference in Daulatpur, Nawaz said that the Supreme Court (SC) verdict had proved that militant wings were operating in some political parties and parliament should ban such parties from taking part in politics. Nawaz said that Karachi was a peaceful city but the peace was destroyed and those who are involved in such heinous act could not serve the country. He alleged that the government was involved in spoiling the situation and that politics should not be done at the cost of peace.
Later, talking to reporters at the Multan airport, he said his party was not against the creation of new provinces, however, it should be done on administrative grounds and not on ethnic or linguistic basis.
Nawaz said that the PML-N stance was clear on the issue of new provinces, adding that it should be done with consensus and aspirations of the people should be respected.
He said that smaller administrative units should be formed for speedy redressal of the people’s problems.
The PML-N president, who had a brief stay at the airport while on way from flood-hit Nawabshah to Lahore, said that he did not oppose the creation of new provinces, but it would be wrong if it were done on the basis of language or ethnicity. Such kind of politics should be discouraged for it had always proved disastrous, he added.
Responding to a question on deprivations of southern Punjab, he said that population of southern Punjab was 31 percent of the Punjab province and the provincial government had allocated 32 percent resources for this area.
This area was also allocated 12 percent more than its share in the Yellow Cab Scheme while most of the Danish Schools were being set up there, he added.
He recalled that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif remained in southern Punjab last year to supervise relief and rescue activities during the 2010 floods.
“People of Pakistan, particularly of Karachi, should dissociate themselves from these parties and think to whom they have to support or otherwise in elections,” he said. Keeping militant wings by the political parties was not in the national interest, he added.
Government should implement SC decision but such allegation has also come against PPP, he remarked.
Syed Ghaus Ali Shah, Rana Sanaullah and Rana Mahmoodul Hassan, MNA were also present on the occasion. agencies
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk