Pasban-e-Pakistan general secretary Usman Moazzam Tuesday filed his nomination papers before the returning officer of the district Central Karachi for by-polls on NA-246. Moazzam is the first candidate to file nomination papers for NA-246. Pasban Karachi chapter president Shaikh Muhammad Shakeel also filed nomination papers as the covering candidate.
Talking on the occasion, Usman Moazzam said today Pasban had taken the first step to give the Karachiites a real representation in parliament. He announced that after the by-polls, Pasban would also take an active part in the upcoming local bodies’ elections. He said Pasban had already begun preparations to participate in the LB polls.
Usman Moazzam said the objective of the national and provincial assemblies and local bodies’ institutions was to make laws for facilitating the masses and hence solving the problems of people. However, majority of lawmakers after reaching assemblies do not give focus to the issues of general public and instead work to defend their petty party interests. He said Pasban had entered the arena to break this tradition.
He said he remembered the daughter of the nation, Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who has been continuously ignored by our leaders sitting in the assemblies. He said she had been in detention for 12 years, while CIA agent and killer of three Pakistanis Raymond Davis was released and sent back to America under the nose of these leaders. He regretted that Pakistani assemblies had failed to raise voice for Aafia Siddiqui and even today she has been languishing in American prison for a crime she never committed.
He said they had to change this trend, and Pasban after reaching the assemblies would serve as the real representative of Pakistani masses.