KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader and former chief minister of Sindh Liaquat Jatoi has appealed to the people of his home town Dadu to boycott the public meeting of Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Saturday as the latter’s party had brought the province to the verge of collapse.

He said this while addressing a press conference at a hotel here on Thursday along with some other PTI leaders including Imran Ismail, Sadaqat Jatoi, Gul Moham­mad Rind and Zulfiqar Ali Hale­poto.

Mr Jatoi said he was going to file a petition in the Sindh High Court for declaring Asif Ali Zardari ineligible for all public offices as he had got himself involved in “massive corruption” and “destroyed the province”.

“Asif Zardari will soon be disqualified like Nawaz Sharif,” he said.

He also stressed the need for conducting fresh census in Sindh because that was the basis of NFC Award.

The former chief minister added that the PPP government in Sindh had crossed all records of corruption in the name of development and Asif Zardari had made “billions of rupees” from the solar energy project deal.

He recalled that the father of Asif Zardari had 150 acres of land but Asif owned hundreds of thousands of acres of land and had accumulated billions of rupees with expensive properties in all major cities.

“The PPP has neglected the largest city of Karachi and turned it into a garbage dump. There is no government in Sindh as no political system can work in the presence of such massive corruption,” he said.

“The people of Dadu should not forget that Bilawal has never raised voice to resolve their issues and kept them oppressed.

“During the last 10 years, no significant progress was made for arresting the killers of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto,” he added.

Mr Jatoi said the PTI would contest next year’s general elections wholeheartedly from all over the country and win them.

Published in Dawn, September 15th, 2017