KASUR - Former foreign minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri on Saturday said the Punjab law minister should tender unconditional apology to the people what he said defaming Kasur that is deemed to be civilised city across the globe.
Talking to the media at the outhouse of Nadeem Haroon Khan in village Naul, Kasuri observed that the way Rana Sanaullaha appeared on TV channels soon after the PTI public meeting in Kasur, showed a conspiracy. He was of the view that his political rivals had wanted to divert people’s attention from the successful meeting to the chair-lifting issue.
He said Sana was responsibe for maintaining law and order in the province as the law minister. However, he said, the minister had miserably failed in Kasur and Chistian in this regard, claiming that the fault did not lie with the public. He said the Kasur meeting was a success while the PML-N public meetings consisted of teachers and revenue officers. He urged the high ranking officers in the government to be serious in solving the people’s problems.
To a question, he said that solution to the Balochistan issue was political and not military. He urged all the political parties to unite on the issue. He suggested that to pull the people of Balochistan out of the sense of deprivation, quota in civil services should be doubled and the Punjab should show generosity in this respect. Kasuri said that recruitments in the Army from Balochistan and Karachi were on the rise, and that was a good sign.
About formation of more provinces, Mr Kasuri said that there was no harm in making new provinces but division should be made on political basis and not on linguistic basis. He explained that more than 80 countries in the United Nations are geographically smaller than the Punjab, and demanded provincial consensus on the issue.