SUKKUR: Sindh Taraqqi-pasand Party (STP) chairman Dr Qadir Magsi has said that Asif Ali Zardari ‘loots’ the rights of Sindhi people by occupying the seat of Benazir Bhutto.

He had not given any sacrifice for Sindh, came in politics through ‘shortcuts’ and made himself a leader, he said.

He said that no basic facilities of education, health and others were available for the people of Sindh and when people demanded their rights, slogans of ‘Zinda Hai Bhutto Zinda Hai’ were raised.

According to reports reaching here, he observed this while addressing a public meeting held at Habib Chowk in Jacobabad on Thursday against ‘anti-Sindh schemes’.

He said the PPP leadership had given nothing to Sindhis except for disappointment. During their continuous rule in Sindh for the past 10 years, the ‘Zardari League’ had given poverty, unemployment, mosquitoes, broken roads and streets with stagnant and dirty water. Dr Magsi said there was no difference between the Zardari League, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) as no one was interested in Sindh’s prosperity. He described Zardari as dangerous for Sindh.

He asked the people of Sindh to be united on the platform of the STP in order to construct a ‘new Sindh’ so that they could spend their lives with honour and prosperity.

Other STP leaders who spoke included senior vice chairman Jam Abdul Fatah Samejo, deputy general secretary Gulzar Ahmed Soomro, central leader of women wing Jameela Soomro and others.

Earlier, when Qadir Magsi arrived at Jacobabad, he was accorded a warm welcome by STP workers at the bypass area.

Published in Dawn, January 20th, 2017