KARACHI, May 30: Leader of the opposition in the Sindh Assembly Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has criticised the agreement between Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim and MQM “to steal government jobs and dole out the same to their cronies.”

It has been reported in media by the provincial Minister, Mir Manzoor Panhwar, and others that 40 per cent of government jobs would be allocated to the major coalition partner, MQM, and the rest would be distributed among other parties in the coalition, according to Mr Khuhro.

In a statement issued here on Tuesday, he said that it was strange to note that government jobs were being distributed like sweets among, what he called “the cronies and henchmen of the ruling parties” while the hardworking and deserving people of the provinces were being compelled to commit suicide. “This is, in fact, a slap on the face of the whole society,” he remarked, adding that the opposition would never allow such cronyism and nepotism to flourish or take roots.

He appealed to the people to see that the recruitment rules and regulations were not violated by the regime.

He said that the whole episode of the so-called differences between the MQM and chief minister was a ‘hoax’, aimed at snatching the right of deserving people on government jobs. The ‘quota formula’ has laid bare the whole drama staged by the two puppets of the military regime. —PPI