Qureshi asks PM to get Geo’s channels restored

MULTAN: Former foreign minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that Punjab had welcomed the people coming from Sindh, now it remains to be seen if Sindh would reciprocate in the same manner, Geo News reported Monday.

He expressed these views in his address to the pilgrims on the occasion of the concluding day of the 697th annual Urs of Hazrat Shah Rukn Alam (RA).

Qureshi said on April 24 he would proceed to Mirpurkhas where, he added, no vested interest and party office bearers would come to welcome him.

“I would like to warn the Sindh government that if hurdles were created in my welcome, it would be tantamount to laying the basis of the intention to undermine the federation,” he maintained.

On Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) move to get entry into the Punjab, he said he had no objection to it and on the contrary he was happy because diversity would only strengthen the federation.

He appealed the Prime Minister to intervene and get the bans on Geo Super and AAG TV lifted, adding the bans would only prove to be counter productive for the democracy.

“PEMRA and Interior Ministry are pointing fingers at each other,” he said, adding it is another thing the parliament and proponents of democracy should raise their voice against the curbs.