SUKKUR: Leaders of the Sindh chapter of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl on Thursday lashed out at Pakistan Peoples Party leadership and Sindh government for their failure to resolve peoples’ problems and asked the ruling party to stop ‘hoodwinking’ masses with oft-repeated slogan of ‘Roti, Kapra Aur Makan’.

JUI-F leaders Maulana Abdul Qayoom Halejvi, Mufti Shafi Mohammad Indhar, Mufti Saud Afzal Halejvi and others said at Majlis-i-Shura of the party in Sukkur on Thursday that PPP government had gifted only problems to people of Sindh and even jobs in the government were being sold to the highest bidders.

They said that besides power load-shedding, load-shedding of gas had been started which had multiplied people’s problems. The residents of the third biggest city of Sindh were deprived of purified drinking water and were forced to use unhygienic water which was causing different diseases, he said.

They said the JUI-F had started the movement for the elimination of corruption from Sindh and in this connection a large rally — ‘Corruption Mitao, Sindh Bachao’ — would be taken out in Sukkur on Feb 23 in which a large number of people would participate.

JUI-F Sindh chapter general secretary Maulana Rashid Mehmood Soomro said at a big public gathering on Thursday that the PPP leadership and Sindh government had not done anything for the people of the province adds a correspondent from Badin.

He alleged that present PPP government in Sindh had broken all past records of corruption and mismanagement. “I will hopefully trounce PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari in the by-election for NA-224 Larkana if polls are held in a free and fair atmosphere,” he claimed.

He said that people of Larkana, like the rest of the province, had become fed up with ‘corrupt’ practices of PPP leaders. Sindh government was not interested in the trial of the culprits who were involved in the murder of Maulana Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro.

He said that his party would continue to protest against the ‘massive corruption’ of rulers. Former president Asif Ali Zardari had destroyed the farm sector of the province. Zardari’s ‘front-men’ were using police to forcibly purchase sugar cane from growers for their mills, he said.

He asked a close friend of Mr Zardari to clear all dues of growers within two months and said in case of failure, his party workers would besiege his sugar mills.

He said that people of all provinces should be given equal opportunities in the projects of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and urged people of religious minorities to join his party, which had always tried to safeguard their interests.

Earlier, JUI-F workers took out a rally which began its march from Qatar Mosque.

Published in Dawn, January 13th, 2017