KARACHI: Sindh Information Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah on Thursday alleged that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government in the centre was indulging in politics of vendetta and implicating Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a ‘false’ case in an attempt to divert public attention from its failure to deal with the challenges of coronavirus pandemic.

The provincial minister in a statement said that the manner in which the Sindh chief minister had been summoned without evidence in a case was the continuation of the same policy of PTI, which the party was pursuing against the opposition for a long time.

He claimed that the case against CM Shah was very weak and there was no evidence against him.

He said that no notice had ever been issued to the chief minister in this case.

CM Shah was appearing in this case so that no one could say that he did not abide by the law.

The provincial information minister added that the Sindh chief minister had nothing to do with this case. He was the finance minister at the time and this case was filed on “false grounds”, he claimed.

He said that making this case against the chief minister of Sindh at present was an attempt to divert the attention of the people from real issues. He said that because the federal government did not take the coronavirus seriously, the pandemic was now out of control.

The PTI government was also constantly using various tactics to divert attention from the sugar scandal, he added.

The PTI people thought that the chief minister of Sindh might not appear and they would make it an issue. Mr Shah said that because the PTI government did not want to take action against its own people involved in the sugar scandal, it was using various tactics to divert people’s attention from it.

He said that the report of the Sugar Commission clearly stated that one of the major factors in the rise in the price of sugar was to allow its export.

He said that it was no longer a secret that the prime minister himself had allowed the export of sugar.

Syed Nasir Hussain Shah said that PTI used to claim that it would form a new style of government, but today it was reluctant to take action against its own people despite evidence.

Published in Dawn, June 5th, 2020