MULTAN: Showing PPP's resolve for creating seraiki province, former prime minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Wednesday that his party would not inch back from its stated position on the province.
Yousuf Raza Gilani said this while talking to a delegation of Seraikistan National Council (SNC) that called on him at Gilani house.
He said that Pakistan Peoples Party had given the identification to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and now it would give seraiki people their identity.
He said that it was an important issue for them besides the rights of people of the South Punjab and added that they would never surrender their geographical and cultural identity.
He thanked the delegation for showing concerns on the abduction of his son Ali Haider Gilani on May 9 from Farrukh Town of Matital area.
Seraiki National Council delegation demanded prompt arrest of the accused involved in Haider's abduction.
SNC also invited the former prime minister to attend a solidarity conference to be held on July 6 at Multan press club in this connection.
The delegation comprised Prof Shaukat Mughal, Zahoor Dhareja, Haji Hameed-u-Din Ansari and Shahid Hameed Ansari.
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