LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) senior leader Maula Bakhsh Chandio has termed the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) dispensation a ‘TikTok government’ believing in rhetoric but doing nothing practical.

Talking to reporters outside the Punjab |Assembly where he had gone to meet PPP parliamentary party leader Syed Hassan Murtaza, he said the incumbent government is saying too much but doing nothing in practical terms.

Sarcastically referring to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s mentioning of administering an injection to him (Mr Khan) when he had fallen from stage during the 2013 election campaign, Mr Chandio said the ‘government of injections’ could not prolong much as the masses were facing crisis after crisis while the government was failing to give even a blueprint for the solution of the same. “The poor crying under power, gas and wheat flour crises are not being offered any relief.”

Answering a question about the change in inspector general of police being demanded by the PPP-led Sindh government, he alleged that the federal government was interfering in the provincial affairs as similar demands by Punjab had repeatedly been accepted by it without any hesitation.

Published in Dawn, January 29th, 2020