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Rulers would have to step down over Panama Leaks: PPP

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OKARA: PPP general secretary Sardar Latif Khan Khosa has said that the Panama Leaks are brought to surface by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists after a long investigation and study.

Addressing the lawyers here on Saturday, he said that UK PM David Cameron had been constantly struggling to clear his position in the British Parliament regarding the Panama Leaks. He said that the time was not far off when the rulers of Pakistan would have to step down from their offices. He disclosed that Asif Ali Zardari would not meet Nawaz Sharif’s messenger Maulana Fazlur Rehman.

Criticising the Sharif family, Khosa said that the government was destroying the agriculture sector. He said that the government was not purchasing wheat from the small farmers at the rate of Rs 1,300 per 40kg. He alleged that the government had been obliging its favourites by giving them gunny bags through a bogus and fabricated process of the Revenue and Food departments. Punjab Bar Council member Javed Hashmi said that the council had decided to launch an awareness campaign on Panama Leaks.

Later, PPP general secretary Latif Khosa and his team visited Chak 4/4L of Military Farms Okara where he was warmly received by the Anjuman-e-Mazareen Punjab (AMP). He declared to raise voice against the detention of AMP general secretary Mehr Abdus Sattar in the national and provincial assemblies.

Earlier, addressing a press conference, Latif Khosa said that PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was with tenants of state land, journalists, lawyers and common people, who had been facing atrocities and oppression at the hands of bureaucracy and police. He condemned the registration of cases under Section 7 of the ATA against journalists and lawyers. He said that he had established committees of the PLF lawyers, who would take up cases of tenants, journalists and lawyers.

PPP district president Ch Sajjadul Hassan, district general secretary Farooq Ashraf Sanguka advocate, Sheikh Najmus Saqib, Izharul Haq Toor and Rana Shakil Ahmad Sulehria were also present.

NAWAZ ASKED TO ATTEND NA SESSION: PPP Punjab president Mian Manzoor Ahmad Khan Wattoo has asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to attend the National Assembly session on Monday and face the opposition’s questionnaire.

Talking to newsmen here on Saturday, he said that the PM should not push the situation to a non-return point, which might destroy the system. To a question regarding Raja Riaz quitting the PPP and declaring to join the PTI, Wattoo said that the moment was not far off when Raja Riaz would have to feel repentance on his decision.

BODY RECOVERED: Haveli Lakha police recovered the body of an unidentified man from Ranjha Bridge.

According to police, there were injury marks on the chest. Police have registered a case and started investigation.