LARKANA: A group of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) activists led by Advocate Tariq Ali Rind has announced holding of a “Larkana division level” demonstration at Jinnahbagh here on Aug 7 against Governor Imran Ismail, MPA Haleem Adil Sheikh and their close associates.

The lawyer claims to be a founding member of PTI and having full support of party workers across the division, saying that his likeminded colleagues were the “oldest workers of PTI”.

A member of the Sindh High Court Bar Association, Larkana, Advocate Rind said that his party colleagues had assured him of participation in the protest demonstration. Speaking to the media at Insaf House, located on Airport Road, he said “a corrupt contractor has been imposed on the old and dedicated PTI workers ... we will no more tolerate such unfair things”.

“This contractor has been maintaining links with leaders of rival parties, including Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP),” he alleged.

He named PTI activists Shahid Ali Rind, Sikander Lashari, Tasleem Zehra, Fiza Khan Shaikh, Shazia Abro, Shahzadi Pathan, Dr Zahid Hulio, Mukesh Kumar and several others who would be addressing the Aug 7 gathering.

He recalled that the Larkana division PTI had a demonstration and set up a protest camp outside Karachi Press Club on July 5 during which certain demands from the top PTI leadership were presented. The unrest among party workers over unfair treatment had now spread to the entire province, he claimed.

Advocate Rind claimed that Prime Minister Imran Khan was taken straight to the residence of the contractor, whom he did not name, by Governor Ismail and MPA Sheikh when he [the PM] visited Larkana recently. He also recalled that it was the same contractor who had torched PTI chief’s effigy outside his residence in the past.

Published in Dawn, August 1st, 2020