SHIKARPUR, Oct 29: Former defence minister and chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) coordination committee for Sindh, Aftab Shaban Mirani, has said that days of the present government were numbered.

Addressing a press conference on Sunday, he said that people were fully aware of the political tactics adopted by the present rulers.

Mr Mirani said that government functionaries had damaged the democratic and constitutional values of the country during their rule.

He claimed that People’s Party Parliamentarians would emerge victorious from the forthcoming general elections with the support of masses.

He claimed that in order to help the government-backed candidate to win the by-elections being held for

PS-11 Shikarpur-III, transfers and postings of the officers of revenue, education and police departments were being carried out.

He told newsmen that the Chief Election Commissioner had directed the Sindh government to conduct an inquiry into pre-poll rigging allegations of the PPP.

BY-ELECTION: A meeting of PML (Q) workers was convened in connection with the by-elections to be held for PS-11 Shikarpur-III at Bhaya House on Sunday.

The federal Minister for Narcotics Ghous Bux Mahar, MPA Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh, MPA Zulfiqar Ali Kamario, MPA Faiz Mohammad Mahar, Mir Nawab Khan Bhayo, PML candidate Maqbool Ahmed Shaikh, the DPO of Shikarpur, Mazhar Nawaz Shaikh and other PML leaders and workers of different communities of the constituency attended the meeting.

The meeting was addressed, among others, by Ghous Bux Khan Mahar and Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh.

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