‘Musharraf who showed his power on May 12 running away from justice’

Karachi            

Sindh Senior Minister for Education and Parliamentary Affairs Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said former military ruler Pervez Musharraf who showed his might on 12 May, 2007, is found nowhere in the country as he has desperately been running away from justice.

He was addressing a condolence reference held at the Peoples Secretariat on Thursday to remember people who lost their lives in the 12 May, 2007, carnage in the city.

The minister said activists of the Pakistan Peoples Party had laid down their lives for the restoration of then deposed chief justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, but the chief justice after his retirement did not go to the houses of deceased PPP workers to condole with bereaved family members.

He said scores of PPP workers had lost their lives in the violence of 12 May in Karachi, while Musharraf addressing a rally the same day in Islamabad made the claim that he had demonstrated his power in Karachi. 

Khuhro said Musharraf had been shying away from the process of justice and was in the habit of using the pretext of illness to avoid summons by courts. He said Nawaz Sharif had also fled the country during testing times and it was the PPP that had always remained steadfast against dictators. He added that the PPP had always struggled for the supremacy of true democracy so that power could be transferred to duly elected representatives of the people. 

The minister said the PPP activists had always rendered sacrifices for the cause of democracy. He said that in the present day no one was found paying tribute to the then deposed chief justice, while the PPP like always had been fully functioning among the masses.  The senior minister said that in the meantime PPP activists had to suffer the loss of lives of their beloved leader, Benazir Bhutto, and now they were ready to give strength to the new PPP chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.

Adviser to Chief Minister on Information & Archives Moula Bux Chandio said May 12 was one of the blackest days in the history of country.  On May 12 a dictator had demonstrated his power but he himself got eliminated, he said. The people still remembered those who were martyred on May 12 and dictators who abused their powers were suffering for their misdeeds, Chandio siad, adding that they were paying tribute to those Jiyalas who had lost their lives on that unfortunate day.