Friday, January 7, 2011

Taseer’s assassination

PESHAWAR: Activists of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) here on Thursday staged a protest to condemn the assassination of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer and urged the government to unveil the hidden hands involved in the incident and award them strict punishment.
Led by PPP city district leaders including Syed Ayub Shah, Azam Afridi, Saeed Ahmad Khan and Tahir Abbas, the infuriated activists burnt tyres and blocked the main road for traffic near Hashtnagri while chanting vociferous slogans against the PML-N government in Punjab.
Carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans in favour of their party and leadership, the protesters urged the government to take action against those taking law into their own hands in the name of Islam.
Addressing the protesters, the speakers condemned the assassination of Salmaan Taseer and termed it a cowardly act. They said such acts could not stop them from their mission for which their leaders had sacrificed their lives.
They appreciated their party and its leadership for refusing to bow to any dictators and preferring death and suffering instead. Extending their sympathies with the members of bereaved family, the speakers stressed that no sect should be allowed to impose its particular point of view on others as it would lead to chaos in the country. “There are 72 sects in the country and if they try to impose their own will on others, there will be chaos and lawlessness all around,” one of the speakers said.
Terming Salmaan Taseer’s death as a great tragedy, the PPP leaders said Islam did not allow killing of any human beings. They said such senseless killings would earn a bad name for the country. Terming the PPP as a party of martyrs, the speakers vowed to continue their mission till the establishment of a peaceful, just and progressive society in which every person would have equal rights.

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