HYDERABAD, April 29: Pakistan People’s Party-SB chairperson Ghinwa Bhutto has said that political parties are taking the country to the Bangladesh-like situation.

She said that it was not the job of the army to decide water and NFC matters which was the function of the Council of Common Interests.

She was speaking at the “Point of View” programme arranged by the Hyderabad press club on Saturday in connection with its golden jubilee celebrations.

She said that the PPP-SB stood for change in political culture which had been completely destroyed ever since the hanging of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and society had become non-political.

She said injustices had been done to Sindh and the PPP-SB was not unmindful to it.

She said that the water issue was part of the political crisis facing the country and when the crisis was resolved all other matters would be resolved too.

“Provinces do not have complete autonomy. Army and civil bureaucracy have hijacked common interests of people,” she said.

The PPP-SB leader supported 33 per cent representation of women in the legislature but, she said, women on the seats should be elected directly instead of being selected.

She said that agricultural economy needed to be strengthened which would help eliminate poverty.

“We must consider our 150 million people as our strength and not burden and only then we could move ahead fast,” she said.

She called for a labour intensive policy dependent on agriculture instead of mega projects or big industries.

Disagreeing with theory that industrialisation could make Pakistan a model country, she said that it was a myth because it would rather lead to more poverty in the country in the shape of displacement of people and increase need of energy for industrial units and big dams.

She said that the poor people had been totally excluded from the political system.

She said that major political parties had become imperialist in nature as they derived their strength from the US.

She said that political parties did not want to break the status quo as the situation support.