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JACOBABAD, Dec 30: Pakistan is facing multiple internal and external security threats, the Naib Amir of the Jamaat-i-Islami, Prof Ghafoor Ahmed, said.
He was speaking to a gathering at the Jinnah Hall here on Sunday.
The JI leader accused foreign intelligence agencies of being involved in carrying out covert activities, saying that the country had become a virtual colony of the United States where foreign intelligence agencies were being allowed to arrest Pakistanis and interfere in the country’s internal affairs.
He blamed the rulers for the present state of affairs, saying that they had resorted to rigging in the general elections and the referendum besides manipulating the presidential referendum.
Prof Ghafoor Ahmed said that army generals were trying to destroy the democratic norms.
Criticizing the appointment of Dr Ishratul Ibad as the governor of Sindh, he said that he (Dr Ishratul Ibad) was involved in criminal activities.
He said that the US wanted to destroy Pakistan’s nuclear programe as it was against the Muslim countries, adding that the rulers appeared oblivious in this regard.
Earlier, the president of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, Sindh, MNA Asadullah Bhutto, said that the Chief Minister of Sindh, Ali Mohammad Maher, should resign as he had failed to improve the law and order situation besides having failed to resolve tribal feuds in Sindh.
KHUHRO: The president of the PPP, Sindh, Nisar Khuhro, has accused the Centre of wilfully depriving the PPP of opportunity to form a government in Sindh.
Talking to newsmen here on Sunday, he said that the inaugural session of the Sindh Assembly had been postponed on lame excuses to achieve this end.
He accused five PPP turncoats, three of whom belong to Jacobabad, for paving the way for the formation of Maher government.
He criticized the murders of the Kandhkot correspondent of a Sindhi newspaper, Shahid, and a teacher, Noonari.
STPP: The workers of the Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party staged a demonstration here the other day against the appointment of Dr Ishratul Ibad as Sindh governor .
They also staged a sit-in outside the local press club.
The local leaders of the STPP, Ali Mohammad Lashari and Dil Murad Lashari, rejected the appointment of Dr Ibad as the new governor of the province and termed it an anti- Sindh decision.
