KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party, Sindh, has said that the future of Urdu-speaking community lies with the PPP as the MQM has only pitched the Urdu-speaking community against non-Urdu speaking communities and betrayed the Urdu-speaking community.

These views were expressed by PPP Sindh chapter general secretary Syed Waqar Mehdi and provincial minister Saeed Ghani while speaking at a public meeting on Sunday at Saudabad in Malir.

The other speakers at the meeting included Sindh Assembly deputy speaker Syeda Shehla Raza.

Welcoming people of Saudabad who were joining the PPP, they said that because of internal problems in the MQM, the peace had returned to the city.

They claimed that the MQM despite having mandate from Karachi destroyed the city.

They said that the Urdu-speaking community after realising the situation were joining the PPP.

Describing PTI chief Imran Khan as “a representative of extremists” in politics, they said that in 2013 elections the PTI and the PML-N won the elections by unleashing attacks on the PPP and its allied parties.

Shehla Raza claimed that the MQM had not only destroyed the Urdu-speaking community’s culture, but also had hindered progress of this city.

Published in Dawn, March 19th, 2018