SUKKUR: Leader of the Opposition in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh has once again ruled out imposition of governor’s rule in Sindh and said instead the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf is considering bringing about “constitutional change” in the province to provide relief to masses suffering “misrule” for past 13 years.

Sheikh, central vice president of PTI Sindh, told media persons in Mirpur Mathelo after appearing in court in connection with an election-related case and later at a press conference in Pano Aqil on Friday that prime minister’s recent decisions on Sindh had so confused the Sindh government that it made haphazard changes in the cabinet but little did they know that the change of faces would not work now because PPP had come to its tether’s end.

He advised PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari that it was time to change the chief minister not the faces in the cabinet, which had been reshuffled again in a desperate attempt to divert peoples’ attention away from chronic issues of the province, which remained unresolved for the past many years.

He censured the Sindh government over its failure to maintain law and order and said the federal government had vowed to end lawlessness in the province. The writ of law had completely disappeared in the province where outlaws made video clips of their actions and uploaded them on social media showing the criminals audaciously attacking police and dancing on armoured personnel carriers while brandishing latest weapons. It showed they had no fear of law, he said.

Rules out imposition of governor’s rule in Sindh

He said that black sheep in Sindh police were involved in supplying drugs and illegal arms to the very outlaws who later killed the law-enforcers in encounters. PTI would save people of Sindh and eliminate menace of drugs, illegal arms and corruption from the province, he added.

Sheikh said that as the PTI was getting “stronger” by the day in Sindh with entry of several prominent political figures in the party, it planned to field candidates in all constituencies of the province in upcoming general election.

On the app­ointment of Murtaza Wahab as administrator of Karachi, he said that following the an­­nouncement of Rs1,100 billion package for Karachi it was agreed in principle among all stakeholders that an honest, capable and apolitical person would be appointed to the post.

But the PPP had gone against this agreement to further destroy the provincial capital and the PTI leadership would not accept such decisions which had been imposed illegally, he said.

Sheikh said at the press conference in Pano Aqil that the Sindh government should desist from taking “anti-Karachi” decisions as it first imposed a harsh lockdown on the metropolis under a unilateral decision and now it had imposed Wahab as administrator on Karachi.

He said that such illogical decisions proved the PPP had realised it was their last tenure in government and the future of Sindh belonged to PTI.

He said in answer to a question about Kalabagh dam that although the country, Sindh in particular, needed more dams but the PTI would not support any water project which potentially harmed national harmony.

Published in Dawn, August 7th, 2021