KARACHI, May 10: The Pakistan People’s Party on Tuesday took notice of statement by Chief Minister Arbab Rahim confessing that he owed his success in election as chief minister to military and not to the parliament or to the people.
The PPP Sindh president Qaim Ali Shah termed this an important evidence from the horse’s mouth that democracy had not been restored yet.
The chief minister had confessed that “General Yousuf made him CM”. The chief minister also added that prior to Musharraf era, “people accused him of running private jails and carrying out atrocities in Thar”.
Mr Shah said it was shocking that a man facing serious charges of human rights violations was picked to run Sindh solely due to connections with military.
He said the assembly session to elect the new government was indefinitely postponed to prevent the ARD from forming the government. Ten members of the PPP were broken to form the unrepresentative regime. Late Maulana Tariq Azam, from a banned group, was released from jail to allow the regime to win with a one-vote majority.
He deplored the corruption, nepotism and horse-trading that has flourished eroding the basic foundations of civil society.
