KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party’s Sindh chapter will begin the second phase of its campaign against the Nawaz Sharif-led federal government with a sit-in in front of the Quaid’s mausoleum on Wednesday (today), party leaders said on Tuesday.

“We’ll start the second phase of our ‘go-Nawaz-go campaign’ from Wednesday [today] by staging a sit-in in front of the Quaid’s mausoleum,” said Nisar Khuhro, PPP Sindh president and a senior minister in the Sindh government, at a press conference at Bilawal House.

PPP Sindh general secretary Waqar Mehdi, senators Aajiz Dhamrah and Saeed Ghani, and party leader Rashid Rabbani were also present.

Mr Khuhro said the sit-in would start at 3pm in which ‘thousands of party workers’ would participate.He alleged that prolonged power outages across Sindh and non-availability of gas and irrigation water to its people and industrial zones were engineered by Mr Sharif’s government to ‘take revenge’ for not voting for his party in past elections.

“The people of Sindh don’t want to see Mr Sharif as prime minister any longer because his government is victimising them,” he said.

He said other divisional headquarters would also hold similar sit-ins. Local leaders in Hyderabad would stage a sit-in on April 30 at Hyder Chowk and another would be held at the Jinnah Bagh in Larkana on May 6. A sit-in would be staged in Mirpurkhas on May 11, another in Benazirabad on May 16 while the final sit-in would be staged in Sukkur on May 21.

Mr Khuhro said the party would also organise a public meeting on May 1 at Nishtar Park to mark Labour Day.

“We are not going to sit idle when the federal government continues to victimise our people. We’ll show them that people do not want him and his government any longer.”

He said many districts of Sindh were suffering 20-hours-a-day power outages daily, which clearly showed that Islamabad was not treating the people of the second largest province on merit.

“Imran Khan kept seeking the finger of the umpire and failed, but we’ll certainly send him [Mr Sharif] packing,” said the PPP leader.

Published in Dawn, April 26th, 2017