HYDERABAD: Qaumi Awami Tehreek (QAT) president Ayaz Latif Palijo has advised both PML-N and PTI to try their best to make their dialogues successful and implement electoral reforms to ensure that elections were in held a transparent manner in future.

The PML-N, in particular, must avoid confrontation with the PTI on Dec 15 and avoid a repeat of the Faisalabad episode and the PTI leadership on their part must rein in their activists and not do anything that harmed democracy, he said.

He said while addressing a rally titled “Mohabbat Sindh Bedari March” here on Sunday that the mainstream parties, PML-N, PPP and PTI, had no solution to people’s problems and they had no roots in masses.

Mr Palijo slammed extrajudicial killings of political activists in Sindh and Balochistan and said if anybody had committed any crime he should be brought to court. It was sheer injustice that they were being picked up and then tortured to death, he said.

He alleged that a group of four people were looting resources of the province who were; PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, builder Malik Riaz, PPP leader Syed Owais Muzaffar Hashmi alias Tappi and MQM chief Altaf Hussain.

In Thar, he said, children were dying daily by scores because of drought, starvation and malnutrition but the PPP-led Sindh government was busy in corruption and making new records in looting resources.

It was wrong to privatise any public entity as it would render workers unemployed. The country’s investors had not so much money to run any entity on a permanent basis so it would eventually fall into the lap of ‘international forces’ who would buy the public institutions, appoint outsiders and foreigners and sack locals.

He said the ‘international forces’ wanted to create chaos in Sindh after having disturbed Khyber Pakht­unkhwa and Balochistan.

MIRPURKHAS: Mr Palijo said while addressing the rally here that other countries were strengthening their agriculture sector by providing modern facilities to growers while the Pakistan government was bent on inflicting heavy losses on farm sector by fixing discouragingly reduced prices of farm produce.

Mr Palijo said that Urdu and Sindhi speaking people were two flowers of the same bouquet while confusion and hatred were being spread with talks about Sindh one and Sindh two in the province.

Published in Dawn, December 15th, 2014