KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Sindh chapter chief organiser and Member National Assembly Dr Arif Alvi has claimed that after getting upset from increasing popularity of the PTI, the Pakistan Peoples Party is bent on pushing its political opponents to the wall. However, rest assured, the ‘corrupt and incompetent’ PPP government would soon be wiped out from Sindh as youth in Sindh were fed up with its ‘corruption and plunder’ and looking towards the PTI, he added while addressing a protest rally of PTI workers who arrived from Tharparkar outside the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday.

The PTI workers from Tharparkar were protesting against their alleged victimisation by PPP Minister Ali Mardan Shah.

Dr Alvi said that although monsoon rains had started in Sindh and the province was expected to face a flood, the PPP leadership instead of taking emergency measures to tackle the natural calamity threat, had been in Dubai as if Dubai had become the capital of Sindh and administrative decisions of the Sindh government were being taken in Dubai.

Describing the situation as extremely worrying, the PTI leader said that the PPP government was facing difficult administrative and political issues because of its own ‘bad’ governance but instead taking corrective measures and reforms, the government was engaged in political polemics leaving its people hapless.

The PTI leader said that workers and leaders of the PTI in Umerkot were being harassed and alleged that PPP Minister Ali Mardan Shah was victimising them.

He warned that if the alleged victimisation was not stopped, they would stage a severe protest and a sit-in outside CM House.

He said that Tharparkar was still facing famine as all measures of the Sindh government were on papers only as all districts in the province remained deprived of even basic civic amenities.

Published in Dawn, July 23rd, 2015

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