PML-Q leaders for unity to resolve issues

LAHORE: PML-Q president Ch Shujaat Hussain, Punjab Assembly Speaker Ch Pervaiz Elahi and MNA Moonis Elahi in their message on Pakistan Day on Tuesday said that the nation pays homage to Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Allama Muhammad Iqbal for winning freedom for the Muslims of sub-continent.

“We express solidarity with the people of occupied Kashmir who are living in inhuman lockdown for the past many years. We assure Kashmiri brethren that Pakistani nation is standing shoulder to shoulder with you. Celebrating Pakistan Day, we need to have unity, discipline and spirit in our ranks so that we can resolve issues and face every difficult epidemic,” they said. March 23 is a golden day of our national history when Muslims of the subcontinent decided to establish an independent and sovereign Muslim state for getting rid of oppression, suppression and shackles of slavery of Hindu majority. This day urges us to turn to thoughts of Allama Iqbal and sayings of Quaid-e-Azam, the PML-Q leaders said.

They said: “Pakistan is a peace loving country. We want peaceful solution to all problems. We want to give message of peace to the world. Political parties will have to set aside differences. Sacrifices of national defence institutions, armed forces of Pakistan and law enforcement institutions for national solidarity cannot be forgotten. Whenever the country faced a difficult time then our defence institutions have stood shoulder to shoulder with national political leadership. March 23 also reminds us that struggle due to which today we are breathing in a free atmosphere, objective of creation of Pakistan was to transform this pious land into an Islamic, democratic and welfare state.”