SUKKUR, March 31: The chief of the Mutahidda Quami Movement, Altaf Hussain, demanded of the government to cancel the sale of Pak-Saudi Fertilizer to the Fauji Fertilizer Corporation.

He said that it should be handed over to the labourers of the factory.

He made these demands on Sunday during his telephonic address to the Ghotki Press Club.

He said the factory’s transaction be cancelled and handed over to the labourers who were the factory’s real owners.

He said the factory had been sold for Rs8 billion, and added whereas it has come to my knowledge that the “fertilizer stocks and other factory assets alone are worth Rs12 billion”.

The MQM chief said that he had been informed by reliable sources that the factory’s actual value was worth at least Rs20 billion while it had been sold at “throwaway prices to retired army personnel” who were the owners of the Fauji Fertilizer Corporation and had been termed defaulters by many banks.

He lashed out at the bureaucrats of the Punjab Government who were running the Oil and Gas Development Corporation (OGDC) in Ghotki saying that 730 employees were working for the OGDC in Ghotki alone out of which 230 belonged to Sindh. He said most of the Sindh employees were employed in the lower cadres.

He further said that out of these 230 employees only 80 belonged to Ghotki District.

He said Sindh was being destroyed economically and due to the shortage of water 70 per cent of the crops had been destroyed.

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