Yesterday while explaining the reasons of their present agitation against National Assembly and Prime Minister, Mr Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Vice Chairman Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf, stated that there were 148 seats in National Assembly of Pakistan in Punjab. They had held public meetings in four major cities in Punjab and as those were attended by a large number of people they concluded that the people supported their campaign and their party, which ultimately should have translated into huge number of votes, but his didn’t happen that is why they have demanded resignation of the prime minister and dissolution of the National Assembly.
While doing so he completely ignored the fact that Pakistan was created with ‘four federating’ units and not by ‘Punjab’ alone. Even if all the Punjabis are in support of their campaign it would be very unwise and disastrous for the existence of Pakistan to try to impose that decision on other provinces. Naturally this will result in their alienation from Pakistan. The PTI should think about this matter urgently and revisit this matter before it hurts Pakistan grievously.
SAJID HASSAN
Islamabad