Senior leader of Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam) Chaudhry Parvez Elahi has said that army action in Punjab is justified as the federal and Punjab governments are not interested in elimination of terrorism.
"The rulers have done nothing and if army does something they try to make its operation controversial," he said talking to a group of lawyers including former Secretary SCBA Asif Mahmud Cheema, Syed Shadaab Jaffery and Nadir Duggal advocate who called on him here on Sunday. On this occasion, N-League leader Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam Sindhu and Chaudhry Mohammad Imran Aslam announced joining of the PML-Q along with their supporters.
Elahi said that the N-League rulers had not sincerely implemented even for one day the unanimously approved National Action Plan (NAP) that was aimed at safeguarding precious lives of citizens including women and children and future generations.
He said that prevailing situation in Punjab province was a result of 8 years of worst rule. He said that priority of the N-league leaders was to make money by show-off projects instead of the solution of peoples' problems.
He said that despite prior information about threat of suicide attacks in the public parks and markets, the Punjab government did not make security arrangements in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park where over 75 visitors were killed and 300 injured.
"When the injured were rushed to the hospitals, they kept dying on the floors of emergency wards due to non-availability of essential facilities, medicines and ventilators," he regretted.