From: qzuhair@milton.u.washington.edu (Newton)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: Top Opposition Leaders to ride Protest Train...
Keywords: Hydrocarbons....
Date: 23 Nov 92 20:58:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov23.205837.10673
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

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]
>
>
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