HYDERABAD, Oct 5: The chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Part (SB), Ghinwa Bhutto on Friday blamed international donors for rise in poverty in the country.

The PPP-SB chairperson was speaking at an election meeting at the Mehran Chowk in Qasimabad late Friday night.

She said that the country’s progress was dependent on a strong democratic government.

Ghinwa said that if elected to power, her party would force the international donor agencies to introduce people-friendly policies.

She said that the policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank had weakened the country’s economy.

She said that the politics of seat adjustments were instrumental in damaging the democratic norms.

Urging the people to forge unity, Ghinwa Bhutto said that her party had party had never considered politics in terms of business.

Lamenting over the fact that no government, except the government of ZA Bhutto, had completed its tenure, she said that successive governments had failed to promote education in the last 12 years.

Pledging to follow the footsteps of the late Z A Bhutto and his son Mir Murtaza Bhutto, she urged the people to vote for her party.

The PP-SB’s Sindh president, Mehan Khan Rind, a PPP-SB candidate, Maula Bux Mashhori and others also spoke on the occasion.