LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Senator Sirajul Haq says the PTI government has done nothing for welfare of the people except for building some shelter houses and providing free consultancy on poultry and buffalo farming despite the passage of half of its tenure.

Mr Haq, who reached Lahore after his week-long visit to Sindh, said the people of interior Sindh and Karachi were leading a difficult life due to the policies of the party, which had been ruling the province for many decades.

The federal government, he said, also announced huge packages for the port city but the claims remained limited to mere hollow slogans. The masses were fed up with the agents of imperialistic forces and wanted to get rid of them, he added.

The JI chief regretted that the PTI government was yet to adopt a serious attitude towards the public welfare agenda. The prime minister and his team, he said, had spent all their energy on war of words against the opposition parties, turning a blind eye to problems of the common man.

He said a severe gas shortage crisis had gripped many parts of the country but the government was busy in tackling the opposition protests instead of developing a plan to mitigate the energy challenge.

Published in Dawn, December 23rd, 2020