KARACHI, Jan 3: The parliamentary party leader of Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians in Sindh Assembly, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, on Friday apprehended that the way portfolios of various ministries in the provincial cabinet were distributed will not only deepen the sense of deprivation among the people but also widen disparity among residents of rural and urban areas.

“The formation of the Sindh cabinet is a day-light robbery on province’s rights, as it is solely constituted on the directives of President Gen Pervez Musharraf,” Khuhro said in a statement.

Criticizing the government, he said that not only women members of the Sindh Assembly were deprived of their due rights but the chief minister also denied rural Sindh its “actual representation” in the cabinet.

He said that the PPP always strived for strengthening the federation and eliminating disparities in rural and urban areas of Sindh, but the present government has once again put the province on the way of revolt merely to “sideline the People’s Party” and appease the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.

“However, I assure the people of Sindh that this corrupt government won’t last long and their creators would also vanish,” he said and vowed that the PPP would resist what he termed anti- Sindh and anti-state steps at all fronts.

The Sindh chief of PPP decleared: “We will also resist the conspiracies being hatched in the assemblies, urban areas and the interior of Sindh.”—PPI