KARACHI, April 19: The Sindh National Front has criticized the Pakistan People’s Party, and said that the PPP cannot absolve itself of the responsibility of the situation of injustices in Sindh caused by the Finance Commission.
Talking to various delegations at his residence on Saturday, SNF chief Sardar Mumtaz Ali Bhutto recalled that the finance commission was constituted in 1974 during the PPP regime and at that time he had lodged a strong protest with the party leadership which annoyed them.
According to him, since then till today the PPP had been in favour of the Finance Commission and during their five-year rule, they had been strictly implementing the decisions of the commission.
However, he said his interim government was the first to raise the objection to the decision of the commission not only at the government level, but also openly in the public.
“The demand for share of Sindh on the basis of income being made today was made by us during the interim government period which is on record,” Sardar Mumtaz Bhutto said.
The SNF chief rejected the contention of the PPP leader, Benazir Bhutto, because she remained in government for five years and so she was unable to do away with the commission.
He said if we had that five years’ government, we would have done away with the Finance Commission, but would have flown the rivers of milk and honey in the province.
Mumtaz Bhutto said “we are fully aware of double policy of Benazir Bhutto” and alleged that internally the PPP had a pact with the government and that is why neither a single penny of the looted wealth had been recovered from them, nor cases against Asif Zardari are proceeded with.
