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- Subject: Re: Top Opposition Leaders to ride Protest Train...
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.205837.10673@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 20:58:37 GMT
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- In article <1eqo9uINNth@coral.bucknell.edu> zabdi@bucknell.edu (Zakir Abdi) writes:
- >
- > Dear Pakistani Brothers & Sisters,
- >
- >
- > "ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (UPI) -- Pakistan's two main opposition parties
- >met in the southern city of Karachi Sunday and decided to pool resources
- >for a cross-country protest train they hope will lead to a popular
- >uprising against the government.
- > More than a dozen top opposition leaders held a news conference and
- >said they were set to board the train, which leaves Karachi Monday.
- > The two groups -- Peoples Democratic Alliance and the National
- >Democratic Alliance -- arranged for the leaders to address crowds at
- >every major station on their 750-mile journey.
- > Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was expelled from the
- >capital Islamabad for one month for leading a protest march Wednesday,
- >was also due to board the train. However, she was to end her journey at
- >Jhelum, about 60 miles before Islamabad.
- > Opposition leaders said they would break their journey for two days
- >at Lahore, the capital of Pakistan's Punjab province, and start the
- >second phase of their protest from Lahore to Rawalpindi on Nov. 26.
- > A spokesman for the opposition said during their two-day stay in
- >Lahore, ``the leaders will continue their anti-government campaign.''
- > He said he did not want to disclose what the leaders would do in
- >Lahore because ``we now want to maintain an element of surprise,''
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-
-
- ARE THESE IDIOTS PLAYING GAME OR WHAT?
-
- >adding the government has been ruthless in crushing opposition protests
- >and leaders were evolving a new strategy to cope with the problem.
- > Bhutto, who will play a key role in the trek, claimed the government
- >has arrested about 25,000 people since the opposition launched its
- >campaign against the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on
- >Wednesday.
- > Using thousands of police and paramilitary troops, the government has
- >so far thwarted opposition efforts to stir a public uprising against the
- >prime minister.
- > Describing the government's actions against the opposition as
- >``state-terrorism,'' Bhutto said Sharif was ``pushing the country into a
- >state of civil war.''
-
- WHAT AN IDIOCY AND STUPIDITY. "SHARIF" WAS PUSHING THE COUNTRY INTO
- A STATE OF CIVIL WAR AND BENAZIR WAS PROPOSING PEACE????
-
- > Although Sharif has said publicly he is ready to meet with opposition
- >leaders, Bhutto said so far the prime minister has made no formal offers
- >to hold such talks.
- > Bhutto chastised the government for detaining protesters.
- > ``About 10,000 opposition workers went to Islamabad Wednesday to
- >participate in the protest march. About 5,000 are still languishing in
- >prisons in the capital,'' Bhutto said.
-
- DOES SHE REALIZE WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE LANGHISING PRISNORS?
- WHAT DID THOSE PRISNORS END UP WITH? BEING CONFINED IN JAILS AND THEIR
- DAMNED LEADERS ROAMING ALL OVER THE COUNTRY SEARCHING FOR MORE PREYS? AND WHAT
- WILL THEY END UP WITH? FACING THE WRATH OF THE POLICE AND GOVERNMENT WHILE
- THEIR LEADERS WILL BE ENJOYING THE FREEDOM AND COMFORT IN DEFENCE AND
- CLIFTON(JATOI AND BANAZIR). ALAS! LITERACY RATE IS SO LOW IN OUR BELOVED
- COUNTRY.
-
- > The opposition leaders said they had no plans to address public
- >rallies in the southern Sindh province, where the army is conducting
- >operations against gangs of robbers and kidnappers.
- > ``We realize that the situation in Sindh is serious and we don't want
- >to cause fresh problems there,'' said a spokesman for the opposition.
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-
- AT LEAST THEY REALIZE THAT THEY ARE CAUSING PROBLEMS.
- > The army, which ruled Pakistan for 25 of its 45 years since
- >independence, still has much political clout. Both the opposition and
- >the government avoid any direct confrontation with the military."
- >
- >
- > Khuda Hafiz
- >
- > Zakir Abdi [pray for Pakistan]
- >
- >
-