KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal on Sunday said that the people of Sindh were not only fed up with the federal government led by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), but they also wanted to get rid of the “corrupt and biased government” of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in the province.

Speaking at a meeting of the PSP office-bearers, he said that if Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) leaders Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Shehbaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz and others did not raise their voice against the bad governance of the PPP in Sindh, the people would be right to think that the goal of the opposition was just to gain power and not to save the people from oppressive rulers.

PSP asks PDM leadership to raise voice for people of Sindh

He said it was ironic that the PPP, despite being the ruling party of Sindh for the past 13 years, was trying to capitalise on the “failure and incompetence” of the PTI-led federal government by holding protest demonstrations against price hike.

“The PPP is desperately trying to hide its own utter administrative mismanagement, biasness, nepotism and corruption,” he said, adding that Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah were chanting the “Go Niazi Go” slogan to divert the attention of the masses from bad governance in Sindh.

“The PSP will not let the corrupt and biased PPP to hide behind the failed and incompetent PTI. We’ll thwart every conspiracy of the PPP,” he said.

He reminded that the people of Sindh continued to fall prey to dog bites and thousands of children lost their lives in Tharparker due to malnourishment.

“Forget about the development of the rural areas, the PPP had devastated the urban areas of Sindh due to its politics of prejudice. People have no access to clean drinking water, there’s no transport system while education and health institutions have been destroyed,” he said.

He added that the Sindh government got huge funds in the head of the National Finance Commission award from the federal government, but there was not a single model union committee / council or a hospital in Sindh.

He said a huge sum of Rs2,300 billion had been spent on education, but still more than seven million children were out of school.

“Despite generating the highest revenue, the people of Sindh are forced to live in the worst conditions due to the PPP’s biased and corrupt government compared to other provinces,” he said.

Mr Kamal said the PPP was making biased decisions to strengthen its rule and just to “mint more money” instead of providing facilities to the people of urban and rural areas.

Published in Dawn, October 25th, 2021