KARACHI: Apart from introducing the joint opposition’s bill in the Senate, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will table a resolution on Monday (tomorrow) in the Sindh Assembly against the “ownership of offshore companies by the country’s ruling family”.

This was said by PPP leader Qamar Zaman Kaira at a press conference at the office of the party’s media cell here on Saturday.

“Monday will be an important day when a bill drafted by the joint opposition will be introduced in the Senate. Besides, PPP members will table a resolution in the Sindh Assembly against the worst financial scam in the country’s history,” he said.

He said that the PPP had no intention to oust the government. Nor, he added, did it want any unwarranted confrontation as it would not augur well for the country which was already going through a grim phase on different fronts.

He said that the PPP shared similar stance with the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on the Panama Papers scandal.

Mr Kaira said that PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari had asked the party workers to fully participate in the protest of the Pakistan Kissan Tehreek (peasant movement) on Sept 28.

He said that the government had destroyed the agriculture sector which was the backbone of the country’s mainly agrarian economy.

“The government has broken the backbone of peasants.”

In a reference to escalating tension between India and Pakistan, he said that a war could not benefit anyone, but the PPP and the nation were ready to fight if a war was imposed on the country.

Published in Dawn, September 25th, 2016

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