SUKKUR: Sindh Minister for Information and Transport Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has said the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman will be welcomed if he holds public meetings in Sindh but he should first look towards his own house before presenting a charge-sheet against the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).

The minister said at a press conference at the Sukkur SSP’s office here on Sunday that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had the tendency for political suicide. It, therefore, could do what it desired.

If the PML-N did not accept the decision of the Supreme Court, it would move to confrontation with state institutions and in that case the PPP would not support it, he said.

He said that in past whenever PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and other PPP leaders were arrested and kept in jail, cases were lodged against them after their arrest.

Mr Zardari remained in jail in fake cases for 10 years and he was ready to face court again if references were filed against him in future but it was sad that leaders of PML-N and the Sharif family, against whom allegations had been proved and they had been disqualified by the Supreme Court, were still free. Their names had not yet been put on the exit control list (ECL), he said.

If the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) took action against the Sharifs, it would serve the cause of transparency, he said.

He said the prime minister had announced development packages for Karachi and Hyderabad to appease MQM-Pakistan and overlooked other districts of Sindh though they also generated revenue for the country.

He said the federal government must also give development packages to the third biggest city of the province, Sukkur, as well as Khairpur, Shikarpur, Larkana, Nawabshah, Mirpurkhas and other districts.

Sukkur Deputy Commissioner Raheem Bux Maitlo, SSP Masud Bangash, Deputy Mayor Tariq Chohan and other officials were also present at the press conference.

Published in Dawn, August 21st, 2017