HYDERABAD, June 29: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil on Wednesday warned inefficient officials of the Hyderabad Development Authority (HDA) of strict action.

Presiding over a meeting of the HDA officials at the nazim secretariat here on Wednesday, he said irresponsible attitude of some officials deprived people of basic amenities and adversely affected development schemes.

He said the district government was trying to restore the glory of the historic city and all efforts were being made to provide basic facilities to the people.

He, however, regretted that some officials of the civic agencies were trying to sabotage the development schemes for their vested interests.

Heads of various civic agencies and departments attended the meeting.

PPP-SB: Leaders of the PPP-(Shaheed Bhutto) have strongly opposed privatisation process and said that whenever the party came in power, it would nationalise all privatised institutions.

Speaking at a news conference here on Thursday, party’s newly-appointed information secretary Inayat Hussain said Pakistan was passing through a worse constitutional, political, economic and moral crises and the very sovereignty of the country was in danger.

PPP-SB provincial general secretary Younus Bhan, Ali Mohammad Jamali and Peeral Majidano were present.

Inayat Hussain said the 1973 Constitution had been distorted by the democratic as well as authoritative governments and on the pretext of privatisation, national enterprises were being disposed of at throw-away prices.

He said the graduate assemblies instead of resolving the problems of the people and legislating laws, were wasting time on the Shazia Mari scandal.

He said economic policies were being formulated under the dictates of imperialist forces, World Bank and other international financial agencies.

Inayat Hussain regretted the people who had attacked President General Musharraf had been arrested without any delay, but the murder case of Mir Murtaza Bhutto was pending after a lapse of 11 years.