Muhammad Pervaiz Malik, PML-N Central Secretary Finance, expressed these views here on Tuesday while addressing a meeting organised to celebrate the victory of Justice Malik Mohammad Qayyum (Retd) as President Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA).
'If the controversial Nato and Indian forces could be allowed for relief work and LoC was opened why Nawaz and Benazir cannot be allowed to return back to their homeland.
These leaders would not come to grab power from Pervez Musharraf but they would join hands with the nation to assist in relief and rehabilitation measures, the need of which has also been felt by the rulers', he said.
According to him, the youth of the nation were politically divided between the two major mass parties of PML-N and PPP, and the success of any youth movement depend on the joining of their leaders.
The proposal of youth movement was timely, as the international assistance was inadequate and we have to rebuild the quake hit areas and rehabilitate the affected persons on the self-help basis. He also appealed to the PML-N workers to donate their Zakat, charity and Fitrana to the quake affected persons.
He congratulated Muhammad Qayyum Malik for winning the SCBA President election. He said this was victory of democracy, freedom, morality and rights of people particularly the legal community. He also thanked the members of the legal profession for reposing their confidence on Malik Muhammad Qayyum, who he said will not disappoint them. 'orphan village'
PML-N requests the government to establish 'Darul Amman' in the quake-hit areas for women who have lost entire families in the earthquake, so that after being discharged from make-shift hospitals they could find a secure shelter.
PML-N central leader Khawaja Saad Rafique expressed these views while addressing a press conference here on Tuesday. He was flanked by PML-N General Secretary Punjab Zaeem Qadri, N. Hashmi, a member of the PML-N Central Working Committee from Sindh and Dr Saeed Elahi, Incharge of Nawaz Sharif mobile hospital in Muzaffarabad.
Saad also asked the government to request popular parties leaders Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto to act as Pakistani ambassadors and collect donations for the quake-hit areas, as so far the government's international appeal only attracted peanuts from the international community.
He was of the view that presence of the US and Nato forces in Azad Jammu Kashmir were a threat to the national security, which should not have been permitted in the area. He lamented the government for not taking the Prime Minister and the parliament into confidence while taking the decision of allowing foreign troops in the quake-hit areas.
On the direction of Nawaz Sharif, the PML-N would set up an orphan village outside Muzaffarabad and in this connection the work was in process.