HYDERABAD: Leaders of Sindh chapter of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz have criticised detractors of the ongoing targeted operation in Karachi and the rest of the province and said the very parties which had called for it earlier are now clamouring against it.

In Hyderabad, senior vice president of PML-N Sindh, Shah Mohammad Shah, told a press conference at the local press club on Sunday that the targeted operation had brought about a visible change in Karachi and people were happy with it.

He said the government launched the operation after reaching a consensus with all political parties but now Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Pakistan Peoples Party were clamouring against it when action was being taken against the corrupt.

In Mirpurkhas, PML-N Sindh president Ismail Rahu said at a public meeting on Saturday night that past seven years of PPP rule in Sindh had only caused a phenomenal rise in corruption and poverty.

Government jobs, even of the lowest ranked, were being sold to the highest bidders, all departments had been destroyed and no development work had been carried out in cities, towns and villages, he claimed.

But it was now going to change soon and the corrupt officers and politicians would go behind bars, he said.

When Mr Rahu and other party leaders were making speeches at the gathering, a large number of PML-N workers and office-bearers were holding a demonstration at Market Chowk, demanding reorganisation of the party.

Raja Abdul Haq and Mir Aijaz Talpur who led the protest demanded the prime minister should replace provincial and district bodies and reorganise them by elevating senior office-bearers.

They described the present Sindh chapter as the ‘Mamnoon Hussain body’, and complained that it was discriminating against senior workers and office-bearers.

Published in Dawn, August 31st, 2015

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