Former information minister Qamar Zaman Kaira has said that Osama bin Laden, alive or dead, damaged Pakistan more than anyone else and added that only due to him Pakistan had to join war against terror which worsened the country’s economy. He said this while addressing a meeting of the People’s Traders Cell and added that unnecessary demand of former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was the violation of the party discipline, adding he would have to face disciplinary action if failed to respond to the show cause notice properly.
He further said the Pakistan Armed Forces were fully capable of defending the boundaries of the country and Abbottabad operation happened only due to concentration of the army on its eastern borders. He said that the Pakistan Army and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) were our national assets and the people who had been propagating against them were working on some foreign agenda. He added that the parties which were terming Osama bin Laden a martyr should come forward and explain their position instead of criticising the government.
He further said that federal budget would be presented in the National Assembly on May 28 and the traders should send their proposals before May 15 so that they might be considered. He said that President Asif Ali Zardari had already sent a message to the Punjab government that Pakistan People’s Party would help the Punjab government to get the budget passed in the assembly.
MAN shot dead OVER MONETARY DISPUTE: A cousin of former deputy mayor Riaz Mehar was killed over a monetary dispute while the wife of a renowned cleric found dead mysteriously at his residence. As per details, police found the body of Haji Asif, a cousin of former deputy mayor Riaz Mehr, from fields. He was reportedly killed by Sajawal and his accomplices.
The police said that Haji Asif gave huge money to Sajawal as loan and he was not giving the money back. Sajawal called Asif at his dera to return his money but he killed him and threw his corpse in the fields. Moreover, Asifa, the mother of two children and the second wife of Maulana Muhammad Naeem Butt, was found dead on her bed the other day, but there was no clue to robbery found by the police in the house.
THREE KILLED IN ROAD ACCIDENTS: At least three commuters lost their lives in separate road accidents. In an incident, Fiaz, a resident of Layyah, was electrocuted near Khiali Bypass while guiding a driver of a trailer for a road turn. A heavy voltage electric wire touched the container, causing Fiaz’s instant death while the driver remained safe. In other incidents, two unidentified youths were killed at Alam Chowk and Qila Chan Bypass and their bodies were moved to DHQ hospital.
