KARACHI, May 28: The provincial chief of the Pakistan People’s Party, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, visited the houses of injured workers and inquired after their well-being. The PPP leader lauded the courage of the workers on May 12 and said they braved the situation without showing any fear and exposed the designs of terrorists.
He said the party was proud of all those who were killed or injured and sacrifices rendered by them would always be remembered.
Mr Shah said the PPP had always played a decisive role in the democratic struggle and its leadership had never comprised on the rights of people even at the cost of their lives.
He was accompanied by the president of PPP’s Karachi division Rashid Rabbani who also lauded the sacrifices of the party workers.
Information Secretary Saeed Ghani, Fareed Ansari, Sultan Lasi also spoke on the occasion. Meanwhile, Syed Qaim Ali Shah said that he was surprised to read the statement given by the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) leader Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif criticising the PPP, the Awami National Party and the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal leaders for meeting the governor.
The PPP leader said, “None of these parties, which suffered heavy casualties on May 12 had gone to see the governor.
Instead it was the governor who had come to offer condolences and all the three parties had received the governor according to traditions of Sindh where those calling for condolences are not turned away,” he said.
PRICE HIKE: Sindh PPP President Syed Qaim Ali Shah expressed concern over rise in the prices of essential commodities.
Mr Shah said there had been an increase in the prices of commodities every week ever since the present regime came to power. As a result, the poor were getting poorer, he remarked.
The PPP leader claimed the prices of commodities had gone up to 80 per cent in a month making the life of working-class miserable.
He blamed the defective economic polices of the government as the main factor in the multi-fold rise of prices.
He also expressed concern over frequent power breakdowns, shortage of water and rampant corruption, saying that the government had been failed on all these counts.
He said it was responsibility of the government to meet the basic needs of the people and added that if it failed to deliver it had no right to rule.
