APDM to observe countrywide shutdown strike today
By Saad Saud

ISLAMABAD—All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) on Friday announced to observe countrywide shutter down strike and hold protest rallies on the occasion of Presidential Elections falling on Saturday (today).
On the other hand, Lawyers will observe Black Day on Saturday (today)Business Community has also supported the strike and assured MMA’s Mian Aslam that they are fully supporting them.
The Members of APDM will boycott the so-called Presidential Elections. According to APDM, there is no moral justification of President Musharraf re-election as the increasing lawlessness,, unemployment, poverty, and lack of basic necessities clearly speaks volumes of the failure of the Government.
Besides Islamabad, protest rallies will be taken out in Peshawar, Multan, Quetta, Faislasbad and other major cities of the country to express their hatred. Meanwhile on the appeal of Pakistan Bar Council, Black Day will be observed on Saturday (today) against Presidential Elections.
Lawyers will boycott Courts and have urged Traders Community to support them.
On the other hand, Government has launched a massive crack down against political activists in the country to make sure strike call by APDM is not made successful. The traders of the Federal Capital have rejected the call for the shutter down strike given by All Parties Democratic Alliance (APDM) on the occasion of Presidential election on 06 October (Saturday).
This was decided in the Traders Action Committee meeting which is representative of the Traders of the Federal Capital. Organizing Secretary of the Traders Action Committee chaired the meeting. Several representatives of small and big markets including melody market, Super and Jinnah Supper Marker, F-10/Markaz, F-11/Markaz, Aabpara Market, Sitara Market participated in the meeting.
In this connection all the stores, markets, bazaars and other business departments will remain open. Earlier, while reviewing the call of shutter down given by of APDM, Majority of the shopkeepers and representatives have opposed it.

JI violates APDM’s decision by tendering resignations: Fazl
Bureau Report

PESHAWAR—Leader of opposition in the National Assembly Maulana Fazl ur Rehman has castigated the Jamaat Islami for violating decision of the APDM by tendering resignations from the NWFP Assembly.
Addressing a press conference here at Frontier House on Friday afternoon, Maulana Fazl ur Rehman said JI, ANP and PML (N) members resigned from the assembly in total violation of the consensus reached at September 29 meeting of the APDM held at the resident of Ch. Nisar Ali Khan. He recalled that resignations from the assemblies were for the Nationaland three provincial assemblies of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan. The JI was bound to honor decision of the APDM.
It was also decided in the said meeting that in case the no trust motion was moved against the Chief Minister NWFP, it would be faced in the house. In reply to a question, he said, the MMA had planned to dissolve the NWFP Assembly by October 5 after disposing of the no trust motion moved by the PML (Q) and PPP (S) on October 1,2007 but it was the Speaker who refused to suspend the rules and regulations in order to allow the chief minister to obtain voted of confidence from the house.
He said, over eighty members stood in favor of the Chief Minster on October 3 in the NWFP assembly for moving trust vote but the speaker declined to allow them to do so and instead permitted the opposition with 31 members to move no trust motion. He said speaker NWFP was time and again told to dispose of the trust motion before October 5 by suspending the rules and regulations of the house, which he said, were always suspended during assembly proceedings over petty matters. The speaker could have slashed the duration period of the no trust motion but declined all such offers, and asked as to what folly they had committed in delaying the dissolution.