BADIN: Estranged PPP leader and former Sindh home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza believes that cracks will appear in the ruling party before general elections after the many ‘opportunists’ who have joined the party to get protection and cover up their past sins are denied tickets.

Dr Mirza, who was a main leader of the anti-PPP Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA), said that anger and frustration among people of Sindh had reached boiling point and political change was imminent.

He was speaking to journalists and addressing supporters at different places in Badin district on Friday.

He said that those who had plundered national resources and ruined the province would soon be thrown behind bars and held accountable for the massive corruption and worst governance.

He said that PPP leaders had never been serious in pursuing the assassination of Benazir Bhutto case due to ‘obvious reasons’. He said that all leaders in the GDA were united under the leadership of Pir Sahib Pagara and the alliance would emerge victorious in elections by trouncing PPP throughout the province.

KHAIRPUR: Veteran politician and a member of GDA Syed Ghous Ali Shah said on Friday that GDA leaders had considered the option to expand the alliance on national level but majority was in favour of strengthening the alliance first at provincial level.

Talking to journalists here, Mr Shah said that Sindh was passing through a crisis and everyone was aware of it. Problems of growers and teachers were not hidden from anyone and everybody was condemning the government action against protesters.

Published in Dawn, December 30th, 2017