FAISALABAD – Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Lawyers Forum Divisional Organiser Mian Abdur Rauf advocate has said Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) ruled the country a number of times, but failed to address the people’s problems. “It is due to the fact that the leaders of both these parties are incompetent, corrupt and devoid of vision,” he said. “Under the prevailing circumstances, only Imran Khan can steer the country out of the current crisis,” he added. Predicting the future of his party and the outcome of the next general elections, Abdur Rauf said PTI would bring about a revolution bigger in volume and intensity than the 1970 elections which gave a landslide victory to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
Mian Rauf who contested the election for the slot of the District Bar Association Faisalabad president this year and scored 750 votes said he was going to organise Lawyers Wing of the party as a great number of lawyers community from Faisalabad want to join Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf. He announced he would soon launch membership campaign for the Lawyers Wing of the party.
Former DBA general Mian Rauf has been in legal profession since 1983. “During my campaign for the presidency of the DBA, I got support from my colleagues irrespective of party affiliations and caste segregations. He said, “There is no alternative to Imran Khan at the contemporary political scenario of Pakistan.” He was determined that his party was doing a massive home work for the coming general elections and hoped that they would bring the change.
“The party will field its candidates on all seats and we are going to reinvigorate the party wings, especially women and youth,” he said. “The party workers are determined to resist the nomination of any corrupt or opportunist candidate within the party,” he said. He thanked all thee lawyers who supported him in the district bar association elections. He hoped his group would field a candidate from Faisalabad for the Lahore High Court bar elections next year to speed up struggle for the interest of the people of Faisalabad towards the establishment of an LHC bench in Faisalabad. He was very happy over the success of Asghar Ali Gill advocate as the LHCBA president.
“I extend my congratulation to him and hope that, being a son of Faisalabad soil would raise voice is support of an LHC bench here,” he said. Mian Rauf appreciated the cleanup drive launched by the city government under the directions of DCO Nasim Sadiq, but expressed his reservations saying the beautification aspect must not be ignored in this drive. Hinting at parks, green belts and public landscapes in the city, he suggested these must be well kept in a way to offer a soothing effect to the eyes. “I offer my volunteer services to make the city a better place for living,” he concluded.
Rally demands release of LQM workers: The traffic system was disrupted as hundreds of Labour Qaumi Movement (LQM) workers took out a protest rally, staged a sit-in for 10 hours in support of their jailed colleagues, demanding their immediate release.
The LQM and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) labour wing members gathered at Dhobi Ghatt Ground at Jhang Road and reached the spot in buses and trucks. Later, they formed a big rally, led by the local leadership, including Aslam Meraj, Mian Abdul Qayyum, Rana Tahir and Samina Latif, that took its way from Kotwali Road to Kutchery Bazaar Chowk and finally reached the district council chowk.
The workers were chanting slogans in support of their four jailed colleagues, Malik Fazal Elahi, Akbar Kamboh, Rana Riaz and Babar Randhawa, who are facing charges of sabotage in a case got registered under Anti-Terrorism Act by their employers in Thikriwala Police Station. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Dr Usman Anwar held dialogues with the LQM leaders and promised that the prosecution would take its course fulfilling the conditions of transparency and merit. The protestors had given a deadline of March 8 to the government for the release of their colleagues who, according to them, were implicated in false and fabricated charges of terrorism.
