DADU: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has said that Zulfikar Ali Bhutto founded the Pakistan Peoples Party as a party representing all provinces of Pakistan but PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zrdari has turned it into a “small party”.

Hence, Mr Zardari had done to the PPP what dictators had failed to do, he said while addressing a public gathering here on Saturday.

On this occasion, former chief minister of Sindh Liaquat Ali Jatoi announced merger of his Awami Ittehad party with the PTI.

Mr Khan said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was implicated in Panama Papers leaks because he had expensive properties in foreign countries.

Because of corruption of rulers, he said, the country was facing economic losses and had to take loans from the International Monetary Fund. He alleged that Mr Sharif was looting public funds collected through taxes.

Liaquat Jatoi announces merger of his party with PTI

He said that people of the country were facing crises because of corruption as there were no proper education and health facilities for them.

The PTI chief alleged that Mr Zardari was “looting people at gun point” as he had purchased sugar mills by threatening their owners.

Mr Khan said that he would visit different parts of Sindh to raise voice against Mr Zardari’s corruption. He said that people of the country needed justice, peace and change and deserved “the country of the Quaid-i-Azam”.

Referring to issues of Sindh, Mr Khan said that he would not allow anyone to construct the Kalabagh dam or divide the province.

He appealed to the audience to participate in the PTI’s public gathering in Islamabad on April 28 and said that the party would organise another public meeting in Karachi on April 30.

Awami Muslim League leader Shaikh Rasheed said that the PTI chief would bring about change in the country and provide justice to people.

PTI secretary general Jahangir Tareen deplored conditions prevailing in Sindh and said that the PTI would fight for rights of the province in Islamabad. PTI senior vice chairman Shah Meh­mood Qureshi said children were dying in Thar because of food shortages and Sindh was facing a severe crisis of water.

Published in Dawn, April 23rd, 2017