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| UK HC refuses visas to PPP leaders |
| 2007-06-30 |
| Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has cancelled its Sindh Council meeting in London after the British High Commission (BHC) here refused visas to the council’s senior members including parliamentarians, Daily Times learnt on Friday. Those who were refused visas included Nisar Khoro, leader of the opposition in the Sindh Assembly, Ms Shamshad Sattar Bachani, directly elected MNA from NA-223, Hyderabad, and Khurshid Junejo, former district nazim of Larkana, said the sources. A senior leader of the party when contacted confirmed the news on condition of anonymity. Most of the leaders who were refused visas were divisional presidents of the party, said the sources, adding, they had submitted new passports for visas. “Khoro had applied for a family visa,” said the sources. When contacted the BHC neither denied nor confirmed the news but stated that they evaluated all the visa applications on individual basis irrespective of peoples’ political affiliations. The Sindh Council members including divisional and district presidents were invited to London by the party’s chairwoman Benazir Bhutto to finalise the party candidates for the forthcoming general elections. Ms Bhutto has also invited the party’s Federal Council (FC), Central Executive Committee (CEC) and provincial and division leadership to finalise the candidates for the general elections. These meetings are scheduled to take place from mid of July to the end of month. |
| Posted by:Fred |