FAISALABAD, June 20: Punjab PPP secretary-general Aftab Ahmed Khan has asked Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali and the Sindh governor to step down for their failure to maintain the law and order situation.

Talking to newsmen here on Sunday, the MPA said that a conspiracy had been hatched by the establishment and the so-called champions of bureaucracy to eliminate PPP from the political arena. But, he said, all such moves of the anti-democratic forces would be foiled through power of masses.

He said the failure of law enforcement agencies in tracing out the killers of Sindh PPP Information Secretary Munawwar Suharwardy, and denial of the government to hold an inquiry were enough proof that PPP leaders and activists were being targeted by some secret hands.

The Jamali government, he alleged, was directly responsible for the deteriorating law and order situation in the country. The Sindh governor, a representative of the president, was being accused for patronizing the criminals.

The lawlessness, price hike, unemployment and killing of innocent people across the country had become the order of the day, but government's ministers and advisors were portraying the picture of all well, he added.

Benazir Bhutto, he said, would return the country at an appropriate time and would lead the party in the next elections. He said that budgets announced by the federal and provincial governments were prepared by the international donor agencies which could be judged from the fact that not a single penny had been allocated for the welfare of the poor people.

Mr Aftab further said the increase in the defence budget indicated that the government believed in the weapon race instead of resolving the matters with dialogues with India.

SACKED: District Police Officer Muhammad Amin Wains terminated four policemen, including a sub-inspector, who were found guilty of corruption and dereliction of duties.