Islamabad: Stepping up their agitation on the killing of Baloch tribal leader Nawab Akbar Bugti, Pakistan's opposition parties held a huge rally in Lahore accusing the military of "ganging up" to establish their writ without taking into account the people's ethnic sensibilities.
Leaders of the opposition parties including Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD), Islamist alliance Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) and the Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement (PONM) who took part in Sunday's rally warned people against anti-state conspiracies allegedly hatched by some Army generals.
PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif asked the gathering over phone from his exile in London to join hands against President Pervez Musharraf and not to give the "dictator" a chance to
prolong his tenure.
He said all of Pakistan was with the people of Balochistan in their hour of distress, especially after the "murder" of Bugti in a military raid on Aug 26.
Accusing the army of spreading the ethnic discord between the four provinces, he said those who were trying to weaken the case of Punjab would not be spared.
It was the moral duty of the people of Pakistan to snatch rifles from those who were using it against the masses as the people had to pay the price of adventurism of the rulers, he was quoted as saying by The News daily.
He said by killing a "patriot" in Balochistan, the "dictator" had proved he had nothing to do with the solidarity and sovereignty of the country but to prolong his rule.
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