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| Long March continues despite arrests |
| 2007-11-18 |
| Pakistan Peoples Party continued with its Long March despite a countrywide crackdown on the PPP workers, and the confinement of its leader Ms. Benazir Bhutto, who was only released Friday morning. Over 12500 PPP workers have been arrested from across the country as the resistance to the Martial Law becomes intense and people reports of countrywide clashes emerge in the international media. The PPP that had announced to carry out a Long March early this week, had to face a panicked regime that deployed all state resources to stop the Long March. Leaders detained today included MNAs Chaudhry Manzur, Imtiaz Safdar Warraich, Qamar Zaman Kaera, Zulfiqar Gondal, Firdaus Awaan, and Ijaz Samma, Saud Dar, Abdullah Virk, Tahir Zaman Kaera, Lala Shahid, Malik Tahir, Zahid Bashir. Despite repeated attempts by the regime, the rally still proceeds to Islamabad though the regime tried to disrupt it in Gujrat, Lalamusa, Kharian as more arrests were made, a PPP release said. The jails are so full that women have been thrown into homes in groups of 25 and 30, creating concentration camps across the Punjab. “But all the activists remain undterred. This speaks volumes about the courage of not only the PPP workers, but of the ordinary Pakistanis who do not want to spend another minute under dictatorship,” said Sherry Rehman, the Central Information Secretary Pakistan Peoples Party. Rehman said that it was cowardly of the regime to attempt to crush the PPP Long March. “All one can say is that they should apologise to the nation for causing loss to the national resources and time, as they tried to stop the PPP from taking out the rally. |
| Posted by:Seafarious |