President Zardari vows to make Seraiki province

President Zardari vows to make Seraiki province

President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday said that the demand of the people of south Punjab for a separate Seraiki province of the people of south Punjab would fulfilled during the tenure of incumbent PPP government.

The President said this while talking to a delegation of the People’s Lawyers Forum (PLF) here at the Prime Minister’s House. Zardari said fulfilling the aspirations of the people of south Punjab would further strengthen the federation.

Later on, spokesperson for the president, Senator Farhatullah Babar told the reporters that president believes the creation of a separate province for the people of South Punjab was not politics rather it was meant to honour and respect the desires of the Seraiki people. Babar further added that the South Punjab people have been demanding for their just rights for the last 60 years but no one listened to them, adding that the incumbent government had promised the deprived Seraiki people of a separate province and is dedicated to help them.

“If giving rights to the people is a crime, we will continue to commit such crimes,” Babar quoted the president as saying.

The president also said that Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani was being targeted because of his support to the Seraiki province and also for his support to the Pakistan Peoples Party’s top leadership.

President Zardari also stepped forward to defend the Gilani family from the corruption charges embroiling the father and his sons, saying Ali Musa Gilani was falsely implicated in the drug case.

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