Close ranks for Karachi: Shujaat

LAHORE - All the political forces should sit together for bringing a permanent peace to Karachi, said PML-Q Chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Sunday. He gave this proposal to all the political forces while talking to the media after the inaugural ceremony of honorary consulate of Cambodia on Sunday. He said that the political parties inside and outside the assemblies should summon a meeting in Karachi and not leave the port city till coming up with proposals to bring permanent peace. Senior Federal Minister and PML-Q Punjab President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, answering media queries said, PTI and Imran Khan certainly have political future, as the support base of PTI will damage the PML-N and not PML-Q. To a question of new province in Punjab, he claimed that the demand of a new province in South Punjab was strengthening due to the poor policies of the PML-N government, as people of South Punjab never asked for a separate province during the PML-Q government. He said the PML-N was ruling the biggest province of the country and maintained that the ruling party did nothing for the province since it came to power. He said that PML-N government wasted Rs 40 billion on roti scheme and tandoors, while the Ashiana scheme would also prove a big fraud. He said that no poor man has Rs 1.2 million to buy house in Ashiana Housing Scheme. Chaudhry Pervaiz said that the recent World Bank report has appreciated PML-Qs educational programme, however the current provincial government has introduced a failed plan of Daanish schools by capping the PML-Q programme. Governor Punjab Latif Khosa while answering a question regarding military option for Karachi said, Time has not come to call in military for calming the situation in Karachi, however all the security institutions including Army are ready to play their part in port city when any such need arises. Meanwhile, Salik Hussain as his first address to the guests after becoming Honorary Counsel General of Cambodia announced establishing a Pak-Cambodia Business Council.

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