MIRPURKHAS, Dec 25: The Pakistan Muslim League Functional candidate for NA-226 Mirpurkhas-I seat, Faqeer Ghulam Nabi Mangrio, has said that his party had served people without any discrimination as his leader Pir Pagaro had directed them to protect the Urdu speaking people living in cities and towns of interior Sindh when ethnic riots had broken out in the past.

Speaking at a press conference here on Tuesday, Mangrio recalled that former prime minister Mohammad Khan Junejo had served people of Mirpurkhas and provided domestic gas facility while President PML-F Sindh Pir Sadaruddin Shah Rashidi as provincial minister had given a number of development schemes to Mirpurkhas. He said Pir Pagaro has huge following.

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