Speakers from different political parties in opposition paid glowing tributes to PML-N jailed leader, Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, while speaking at the launching ceremony of a book written by Hashmi entitled 'Haan mein baghi hoon.' Former President of Pakistan, Rafiq Tarar presided over the ceremony while among others Jamaat-i-Islami Pakistan Chief Qazi Hussein Ahmad, PML-N Chairman Raja Zafar-ul-Haq, MMA leader Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman, PPP leader Jehangir Badar, PML-N Senior Vice-President Saranjam Khan, ANP leader Begum Naseem Wali Khan, Nawabzada Mansoor Ali Khan, Hafiz Abdur-Rehman Makki of Jamaat-uddawa, Tehmina Daultana, Khawaja Saad Rafiq, Maimoona Hashmi and others spoke on this occasion.
Speakers paid glowing tribute to the commitment of Makhdoom Javed Hashmi towards his country, nation, democracy and the party.
The gathering also adopted a unanimous resolution demanding return of exiled political leadership, withdrawal of increase in the prices of petrol and gas, rejecting army operation in Balochistan and condemning Wana operation.
MMA and JI leader, Qazi Hussein Ahmad speaking on the occasion said that President Parvez Musharraf had himself rejected 17th amendment by not fulfilling his commitment on Uniform issue.
He said that they also reject the same amendment and neither accept Musharraf as a President nor Chief of Army Staff (COAS).
The JI leader asked the gathering whether they were ready to launch a movement to get rid of slavery of present rulers and the US. He asked the masses to identify their real enemy and said that the US was targeting Islamic world.
Qazi said that country could not be break on the issue of Kalabagh Dam, adding that the political leadership would evolve some way out of this issue.
"Formula of water distribution had already been evolved and implementation on it would be ensured by the politicians," he added.
Parvez Musharraf could not be given ten more years on this pretext, he added.
PML-N Chairman, Raja Zafarul-Haq said that no matter how much Kalabagh Dam was needed but it should not be built at the cost of Pakistan. He said that water distribution formula had been settled in 1991.
He demanded that a committee of political leaders be constituted which should evolve a way that how every province could utilise water of its share under this accord without damaging the interests of other provinces.
Paying tributes to Javed Hashmi, Raja Zafarul Haq said that he alone had challenged a wrong system. He said that country needed unity and solidarity to ensure Pakistan's development, solidarity, and security to basic rights of 150 million people and restoration of democracy.
MMA leader, Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman in his speech said that Javed Hashmi by writing this book had given a standard of rebellious. He said that rebellious was one who breaks country not that one who saves country.
Rehman said that realities of history reveal that politicians were not responsible for dismemberment of Pakistan. He also hinted at some foreign conspiracies creating situation in different parts of the country, which might lead to some debacle.
He said that the political leadership and public had to face these conspiracies with full wisdom and honesty.
Regarding Kalabagh Dam issue, he said that fear of Begum Naseem Wali Khan might prove correct that General Musharraf would announce construction of this dam.
However, he said that Musharraf would never go to build this dam. He said issues like construction of any controversial dam, setting up of cantonments or others were aired to create internal rifts and prolong regime of a dictator.
He questioned that why government did not start work on those water reservoirs, which were not controversial.
ANP leader, Begum Naseem Wali Khan feared that the present government might announce construction of Kalabagh Dam and expressed her apprehension that it would lead to further conflicts between the country.
She said that if smaller provinces were against big province today, it was not due to the general public of Punjab but due to a specific group of the civil and military bureaucracy. She said that Punjabi people had to save the country.
Jehangir Badar in his speech paid glowing tributes to Javed Hashmi and threw light on one year they spent together in the jail. He also called for waging a struggle to bring a real democracy in the country.
While Former President of Pakistan, Justice Rafiq Tarar read out two excerpts from the book of Javed Hashmi.
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