THATTA: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Mumtaz Ali Bhutto has claimed that the Sindh government is responsible for more than 1,000 deaths from heatstroke amid power crisis in Karachi and other parts of the province.

Speaking at an Iftar party hosted by the Thatta district activists of his party including Hanif Memon, Dada Ismail Shoro, Ayoob Shar and Munawwer Abasi in Shah Najaf Hall here on Sunday evening, Mr Bhutto criticised top Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leaders for leaving the country for “safe haven to escape accountability”, and said that Sindh had witnessed massive corruption, poverty, lawlessness, terrorism, illiteracy and social evils over the past decade. He alleged that PPP leaders did nothing but plundering national wealth.

Amir Bhutto

LARKANA: Amir Bukhsh Bhutto, a PML-N leader and former adviser to the prime minister, has said that the ongoing crackdown on corrupt government functionaries who had siphoned off the country’s wealth would not hopefully be left unfinished.

He was speaking at several gatherings held in Bahman, Mirpur Bhutto and Warisdino Machi union councils in connection with the upcoming local bodies elections on Sunday.

“Hopefully, [achievements of] the ongoing operation will not be buried under any new NRO [National Reconciliation Ordinance],” he said.

Mr Bhutto said he saw the end of [PPP co-chairman] Asif Ali Zardari’s era, and said the former president and his associates should be brought to justice. “With the beginning of the operation against corrupt elements, many have fled the country and the others are about to escape,” he observed, adding that “their cries are coming in the shape Sindh chief minister’s letter suggesting that the Rangers were overstepping their authority”.

Published in Dawn, June 29th, 2015

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