TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2020 (PAGE 6) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU Suspension of goods trains: Punjab Govt The more Congress hates PM, the Nawaz Sharif blames Army chief, seeks Railway Minister's intervention more people support him: Nadda ISI for political crisis in Pak KARACHI, Oct 26: able to violate the voters' man- ment over the missing persons' NEW DELHI, Oct 26: that they have had contempt for CHANDIGARH, Oct 26: farmers has negated efforts of "arbitrary decision" to stop date now. I saw this enthusiasm issue. dissenting voices for decades. Pakistan's deposed Prime the state so far, said the CM. goods trains to Punjab was a Hitting out at the Congress in Gujranwala and Karachi, and He also alleged that since The Punjab Government on "We saw glimpses of it dur- Minister Nawaz Sharif has He said earlier the state gov- "clever ploy" of the Centre for its criticism of Prime now I'm seeing it in Quetta," 1947, governments had never Monday asked Union Minister ing the Emergency. Later on, blamed Army chief Gen Qamar ernment had succeeded in con- "hatched under a deep-rooted Minister Narendra Modi, BJP Sharif said, addressing the huge kept their agreements with the Piyush Goyal to intervene after the Rajiv Gandhi government Javed Bajwa and ISI chief Lt vincing farm unions to allow conspiracy to sabotage farmers' chief JP Nadda on Monday said crowd at the stadium. Baloch people and they were not the Railways decided to extend made a brazen attempt to weak- Gen Faiz Hameed for the cur- partial the resumption of services struggle against the black the more the opposition party "I am aware of Baloch peo- treated as equal citizens of the its suspension of goods train en press freedom. A free press rent political situation in the with withdrawal of their block- laws". and its leaders "lie" and "hate" ple's problems, Nawaz Sharif country. operations in the state, saying rattles Congress," he alleged. country, as the Opposition par- ade from October 22. Meanwhile, Krantikari Modi, the more people will knows [...] the missing persons Meanwhile, Mohsin Dawar, protesting farmers are still Dubbing the Congress ties held their third massive However, after the restora- Kisan Union president Darshan support him. issue is still there. I feel pain a big critic of the government, blocking the tracks. "blessed" Maharashtra govern- joint rally against Prime tion of the movement of freight Pal said the Centre is trying to In a series of tweets, Nadda when I see the victims," he said, was taken into custody by secu- Goods train services ment as a "laboratory of usage Minister Imran Khan-led gov- trains, the Railways unilaterally "defame" farmers' agitation. lambasted both Congress presi- in an apparent reference to the rity officials at the Quetta air- resumed in the state after farmer of brute state power", Nadda ernment. stopped these, the CM wrote in Bharatiya Kisan Union dent Sonia Gandhi and her son forced disappearance of hun- port on Saturday when he unions on October 21 said troubling opponents and The Pakistan Democratic his letter to Goyal. (Ekta Ugrahan) general secre- and MP Rahul Gandhi for their dreds of Baloch people. arrived for the rally. announced exempting them curbing freedom of speech in Movement (PDM), a coalition The Chief Minister further tary Sukhdev Singh alleged that reproval of the Prime Minister He said that the PDM has Home Minister Ziaullah from their weeks-old "rail roko" "trademark Congress style" are of 11 Opposition parties, was said freight trains had continued the Centre was trying to take on a range of issues. risen against "unconstitutional Langove said that there was a agitation over the Centre's new visible in the working of the formed to oust Khan from almost uninterruptedly through- revenge from farmers for taking "Combination of despon- powers that have made Pakistan ban on Dawar's entry in the farm laws. state government. power on September 20. The out the coronavirus lockdown on the government and some dency and shamelessness is hollow from inside and out". province. The ban is set to The Railways began running He also hit back at Rahul alliance held two massive back- period even when passenger corporate houses over the farm dangerous. Congress possesses This is not the first time expire on October 29. goods trains on October 22 but Gandhi for his remarks on to-back gatherings in trains were completely stopped. laws. both. Empty rhetoric of decen- Sharif has made such allega- Dawar, a lawmaker and decided their suspension for two social media citing a media Gujranwala and Karachi this "There is now no plausible Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh cy and democracy by the tions against top Army brass; he leader of Pashtun Tahafuz days on October 23 after some report claiming that farmers month. The third rally was held reason to stop freight opera- Committee general secretary Mother is 'complemented' by made similar ones in the Movement (PTM), tweeted that farmers blocked their movement. across Punjab burnt effigies of in Quetta, capital of the restive tions," he said. Sarwan Singh Pandher live demonstrations of politics Gujranwala rally after which a he had been told he was not On Monday, the suspension Prime Minister Modi. Baluchistan province, on The opposition Shiromani described it as "step-motherly of hate, anger, lies and aggres- furious Prime Minister Khan allowed to enter because of was extended up to October 29, Describing the torching of Sunday. Akali Dal (SAD) and the Aam treatment" to Punjab. sion by the Son. Double stan- had declared that he would get security risks and said he provoking a sharp reaction from Modi's effigies as a "Rahul Addressing the gathering via Aadmi Party (AAP) too con- Earlier in the day Divisional dards galore," Nadda said. "tougher" with the Opposition. refused to be silenced like this. the Punjab Government, opposi- Gandhi-directed drama", video link from London, the demned the move. Railway Manager (Ferozepur The BJP president made Sharif's daughter and PML- And will not be intimidated. tion parties and farmer bodies. Nadda said it was shameful but three-time Prime Minister and Farmer bodies said the Division) Rajesh Aggarwal in a these remarks in response to an N vice president Maryam (PTI) Chief Minister Amarinder not unexpected. chief of the Pakistan Muslim Centre took the decision with an release said it was decided on article written by Sonia Gandhi Nawaz in her speech said that As the public meeting began Singh said the move will further "After all, the Nehru- League (PML-N) again blamed aim to "defame and derail" their October 23 not to operate goods in an English daily alleging that time has come to change the fate at the Ayub Stadium in Quetta provoke protesting farmers. Gandhi dynasty has never Army chief Bajwa and ISI agitation. trains until the situation is com- democracy is being hollowed of Pakistan - and Balochistan. on Sunday, the city witnessed a He spoke to Railway respected the office of the Director General Hameed for SAD leader Daljit Singh pletely restored. out in the Modi dispensation. "No longer will husbands blast that killed three people and Minister Piyush Goyal, seeking Prime Minister. This was seen Pakistan's current situation. Cheema described the move as This restriction was earlier "One dynasty's deep per- and brothers go missing, people injured seven others in his intervention for immediate in the institutional weakening "Gen Bajwa, you will have "anti-punjab" and asked the meant for October 24 and 25 sonal hatred against a person of Balochistan," she said, Hazarganji area, 35 to 40 min- restoration of freight movement, of the Prime Minister's authori- to answer for record rigging in Centre to take it back. but now it has been extended who was born in poverty and addressing the attendees. utes away from the rally site. according to a statement. ty during the UPA years of the 2018 elections, for horse- "Why was the government till October 29, he said. became PM is historic. Equally "The reason you are According to police, an The CM also wrote to Goyal, 2004-2014," he said. Alleging trading in Parliament, for mak- deliberately stopping trains? It The Divisional Railway historic is the love people of deprived of food and shelter is improvised explosive device saying if the freight movement is that atrocities against SC/ST ing Imran Niazi Prime Minister means they want to teach Manager appealed to farmers to India have showered upon PM. that your vote is not respected. (IED) was planted in a motorcy- not started immediately, not only communities are at an all-time against people's wishes and [by] farmer bodies a lesson," he clear the rail tracks and vacate More Congress' lies and hate Those who rule you are not cle. Punjab but union territories of high in Congress-ruled tearing apart the Constitution alleged. railway stations to enable them increases, the more people will answerable to you but to some- Undeterred by the blast, the Jammu and Kashmir; and Leh Rajasthan, and that women are and laws, for pushing people AAP MP and party's Punjab resume train operations in the support PM Modi," Nadda said. one else, someone else pulls PDM leaders went ahead with and Ladakh will also face an unsafe in Rajasthan as well as towards poverty and hunger," unit chief Bhagwant Mann state, according to the release. Recalling the emergency their strings," she said. the rally, which was attended by economic crisis. Punjab, Nadda said, "Except 70-year-old Sharif said. alleged that it shows Prime Aggarwal said after a partial the BJP chief said the Congress Maryam said that the "sun is PDM president Maulana Fazlur The decision of the Railways governing, they are doing Sharif, who is entangled in a Minister Narendra Modi has withdrawal of the ongoing agi- can never pontificate on the about to set" on the current "dic- Rehman and other top leaders of to discontinue freight movement everything else".