Re: 12 May - Rally in Islamabad
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\05\12\story_12-5-2007_pg13_1
60,000 head for Islamabad rally today
A caravan of more than 60,000 PML workers from Lahore will join today’s rally under the supervision of Lahore PML president Mian Muhammad Munir via Motorway, said Punjab PML secretary general Chaudhry Zaheer Uddin on Friday.
He said the PML had finalised its arrangements for today’s Estehkam-e-Pakistan Rally in Islamabad to show solidarity with President General Pervaiz Musharraf.
He said more than 500,000 workers from all over the four provinces would participate in the rally to give a warm welcome to the president.
He said more than 100,000 buses, cars and wagons from the Punjab would reach Islamabad under the supervision of the National Assembly members and party leaders. He said the rally would be a gathering of the PML workers. He said government servants were not being compelled to join the rally.
Information Technology minister Abdul Aleem Khan and Gulberg Town nazim Faraz Chaudhry have made special arrangements to carry workers in air-conditioned buses. The workers would be served breakfast at Ghari Shahu at 7:30am. Moonis Elahi, son of CM Pervaiz Elahi, will also lead a rally from Liberty Chowk, Gulberg, to Islamabad.
All workers who have registered their names for participation in the rally have been directed to collect stickers, posters, banners and party flags from their concerned UC-nazim’s offices.
Food and medical treatment to the party workers would also be provided, Mian Munir said. He said a team of doctors carrying life saving drugs would travel along with the caravan.
He said the PML district presidents, parliamentarians and office bearers had contributed for the rally expenditures.
Punjab PML senior vice president Arshad Khan Lodhi said the PML workers from 2,500 union councils of the Punjab would gather in Islamabad. He said the May 12 rally would prove to be a referendum in favour of General Musharraf. He said the rally would play a decisive role in the success of PML in the upcoming elections.