PPP workers angry at attack by PML Nawaz thugs

kali_billi · April 15, 2008, 9:48pm

Re: PPP workers angry at attack by PML Nawaz thugs

This is a shameful attack by Nawaz Sharif supporters on the PPP offices. I thought that these two parties were allies?

PPP workers flay Riaz for silence on office demolition

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

By Faizan Bangash

LAHORE

PPP parliamentary leader in the Punjab, Raja Riaz, had to face heavy criticism from some party workers Monday on his silence over an attack and demolishing of a party office, allegedly on the orders of a PML-N MNA in Shahdara. The PPP leader, who was visiting the Lahore party office to address workers, remained silent when a group of party supporters surrounded him and asked him to take notice of the attack by PML-N activists, allegedly backed by MNA Malik Riaz.

The PPP supporters informed the PPP leader, who had vowed to strengthen the party in the Punjab, PML-N activists had damaged equipment, torn off posters of PPP Chairman Bilawal Ali Zardari and Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and razed the party office at Shahdara. He was told the workers had been warned against reopening the office in the area. However, the senior PPP leader advised supporters to inform Samiullah Khan, PPP Lahore secretary-general, about the issue. He then waved to the supporters, boarded his luxury car and left for airport to reach Karachi.

An angry party supporter, who requested not be named, said it looked that problems of workers would be not solved by the present leadership. He said workers had been regularly threatened in Shahdara but neither any local nor any senior leader of the party paid any heed to the issue. When contacted, Samiullah Khan, also a resident of Shahdara, confirmed the incident. He said it was a condemnable, allegedly action taken on the orders of the chief secretary and the DCO. He said the PPP was in coalition with the PML-N and its members should avoid taking such steps. He said the machinery of the City District Government Lahore (CDGL) had been used to demolish the office, which was a matter of concern for coalition leaders. He said the PML-N leader should take notice of the action taken by the local leadership, which was posing a threat to the coalition.

http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=106919

really???