Sarwar’s resignation to herald ouster of government: PAT

LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek Secretary General Khurram Nawaz Gandapur has said thing will not end with the resignation of former Punjab Governor Ch Muhammad Sarwar but it was the beginning of the end of the PML-N government.
Chief Minister will have to answer and name the players of the land mafia that forced the governor to resign, he said in a statement Friday in which he also released the excerpt of a report on the Punjab Government’s performance during the month of January 2015.
He said rulers responsible for the murder of 14 innocent people and injuring hundreds could stoop to any depth to save their skin, but it now looked impossible. He said as long as these rulers were in the chair the country would continue to face crisis after crisis and it was imperative that the people should come out and remove them for the sake of stability, progress and development.
PAT report said, in January 2015, a total of 200 people committed suicide due to starvation. Zeeshan, a poor fish seller of Anarkali, committed self-immolation. He did this after he had to face the attitude of officials of different government departments.
The report said over 170 others had to face torture at the hands of police and most of them were PAT workers from Bakkhar and Okara. A total of 307,000 crimes of heinous nature took place in Punjab; over 80 percent of the crime could not be registered as the police had adopted a policy of non-cooperation with the public and only filed FIRs on the instructions of the influential or after taking bribe. This process had been adopted to show minimum reporting of crime.
The report said that on 10 occasions, high court found the police culprits and declared the police robbers, dacoits and incompetent. In this month, over 300 boys and girls were subjected to inhuman behaviour. A 4-year-old girl from Gujranwala, 9 and 6 year-old from Lahore, 10-year-old from Faisalabad, 7-year-old from Hafizabad, and four girls from Hujra Shah Muqeem were subjected to gang-rape and some of these incidents included murder after rape. Of all the rape and murder cases, only two percent were solved and the Punjab police failed on all the other occasions.
The unemployment in the province can be judged from the fact that for the posts of 300 constables over 163,000 young men applied who had come up to the merit policy. The report said that in this month false shortage of petrol, gas and LPG was created and the rulers fleeced over Rs70 to Rs80 billion from the pockets of the poor.