KARACHI, Feb 12: Sindh National Front Chairman Mumtaz Ali Bhutto has suggested President Musharraf to convene a roundtable conference of sincere people for sorting out the problems faced by the nation and the country.

“The situation is fast deteriorating and needs immediate corrective measures.

“If the people sitting at the helms of affairs did not change their indifferent attitude towards the persisting problems, it would weaken the very foundation of the country,” he warned while talking to party workers at his residence on Saturday.

“There seems no government in the country and the Waderas, Pirs, Mirs, Chaudhries, Khans and Sardars have divided the country in small states of their own where there is no law except their order,” he remarked.

He said that in such state of affairs the government officials and police had given up performing their duties as a public servant and instead were acting on the orders of the feudal lords just to appease them.

“This in turn has given way to lawlessness, corruption and other social evils,” he added.

Referring to sugar crisis, Mumtaz Bhutto said, “How a government, which has failed to control the hike in sugar price, can resolve the national issues and provide security to the citizens, get rid of corruption, arrest the unemployment etc.

The owners of sugar mills had hoarded huge stocks of sugar to gain financial mileage through black-marketing,” the SNF chief contended.

Mr Bhutto suggested that the rulers should take over sugar mills and bring the hoarded stocks into market for ending the crisis. —PPI