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Saturday, October 29, 2011
PML-N demands Zardari quit* Shahbaz Sharif lashes out at President Zardari for rampant corruption in country
* Claims masses are with PML-N to oust the current government
By Moazam Baig
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, on Friday, asked President Asif Ali Zardari to quit the Presidency as soon as possible otherwise the people of Lahore, Quetta, Karachi, Peshawar and Larkana would not let him go free.
Shahbaz, who was addressing a protest rally here organised by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, said that corruption has touched its peak in Pakistan and President Zardari, his cronies and “Ali Baba and forty thieves” would be hanged upside down at Bhaati Chowk for causing worst load shedding, corruption and unemployment in the country.
The rally was attended by Pervez Rashid, Khawaja Asif, Javed Hashmi, Opposition leader in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali, Saad Rafiq, Hamza Shahbaz, provincial ministers, members of provincial and national assemblies, party office-bearers and a large number of party workers.
Shahbaz asked President Zardari to quit the Presidency as soon as possible otherwise the people of Lahore, Quetta, Karachi Peshawar and Larkana would not let him go free. “The people were ready for the last battle and they would fight the war against corrupt federal government on streets and crossings,” the Punjab chief minister said, while adding that the PML-N rally has proved that people were justifiably against the “present corrupt federal government”.
Vowing that this rally would not stop until its target has been achieved, Shahbaz said it aimed at ousting “corrupt Zardari government which has ruined the economy of the country”. He said the federal government, instead of eliminating load shedding, has raised the electricity tariff and made the condition of people miserable. He said that every section of country was worried but PML-N would put the country on the road to progress under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif.
The Punjab CM said that Pakistan Muslim League-N rally has proved that the masses were with Muslim League-N in its efforts to get rid of inefficient and corrupt rulers and they have laid the foundation of a new Pakistan through their enthusiastic participation in the rally. He said that the corrupt government has given nothing except darkness and despair to the people. He said that new scandals of federal government were being exposed almost daily, and PIA, Railways, Steel Mills and other institutions have been ruined by corruption while price-hike and unemployment have made the life of people miserable. Corruption was being promoted in the name of rental power plants during the last three years, Shahbaz said, adding that due to the wrong policies of the rulers, the country has plunged into darkness while poor people have lost their livelihood.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk