HYDERABAD: Sindh Minister for Information Sharjeel Inam Memon has said that Hyderabad will also get a project on the pattern of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) which will not only improve the city’s infrastructure but also provide better transport facilities to masses.

He said that all require measures would be taken to hold the second phase of local government election in a peaceful and transparent manner. So far 30 chairmen and vice chairmen of Pakistan Peoples Party had been elected unopposed in the district, he said.

The question of rigging simply did not arise because the opponent parties could not even find any candidate to field against PPP in the LG polls, he said while speaking to journalists after offering Eidul Azha prayers at his residence in Tandojam.

He urged all political forces to end their mutual differences and work for progress of the country. Political differences should not be taken to a point where they undermine even personal relations. PPP was ready to talk to all political parties but Imran Khan had closed doors of talks with all other political forces, he said.

He said that on the directives of PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, Sindh government was planning to provide relief to the poor in order to enable them to cope with unprecedented price hike. Its announcement would be made soon by the chief minister, he said.

He said that the Sindh government had formed teams headed by provincial ministers and elected representatives to supervise rain emergency and related measures. Civic agencies with the help of provincial government’s machinery were busy draining out stagnant rainwater in the rain-hit districts of Sindh, he said.

Memon said that PPP would fulfill all the promises made with its ally, Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pak­istan, and added that three names were forwarded to the president for Sindh’s gubernatorial post but unfortunately the presidency that was remotely controlled from Banigala had delayed the appointment.

He said that the political party winning majority of seats would get its mayor elected in Hyderabad. Delimitations were carried out by Election Commission of Pakistan along with revenue officers and Sindh government had nothing to do with it, he said.

He said that the former prime minister had promoted a culture of vitriolic and abuses. The leaked audio purportedly linked to former first lady raised serious questions over her neutrality and the impression that she was just housewife and apolitical but the video told another story, he said.

Published in Dawn, July 13th, 2022