LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party activists staged rallies across the province on Friday in response to the party chairman’s call for launching a protest campaign against federal government for skyrocketing prices of essential food items and POL products, growing poverty and unemployment.
In Larkana, PPP Sindh president Nisar Ahmed Khuhro led a demonstration outside local press club where he said that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government was responsible for the unbearable price hike and resultant economic instability which was caused by its ‘flawed’ financial policies.
He called the protest a referendum against the federal government and said if PML-Q and MQM-P were really sincere with people, they should distance themselves from the PTI government.
SUKKUR: PPP workers took out processions from different areas of the city which converged on press club and turned into a big demonstration.
PPP senior leader Syed Khurshid Shah, provincial ministers Syed Nasir Hussain Shah and Syed Awais Qadir Shah, MNA Nouman Islam Shaikh, advisor to CM on Sukkur affairs, led the protests and said that Imran khan had failed to come up to the expectations of people.
“The country is on the brink of economic crisis but the prime minster and federal ministers are still boasting that they have steered the country out of crisis,” said Khushid Shah, adding “PTI’s new Pakistan has actually destroyed the real Pakistan”.
Nasir Shah noted that the poor could not provide two square meals to their families because “the federal government has snatched their right to live”.
PPP Jacobabad chapter staged a demonstration at local press club against unbearable rise in prices of petroleum products and edibles.
Advisor to chief minister on prisons Aijaz Ahmed Jakhrani and others, who led the protest, lashed out at the PTI government and said the party chairman was determined to rid people of Imran’s government.
HYDERABAD: PPP activists staged demonstrations in Hyderabad and Tandojam towns against growing inflation and unemployment and accused Imran Khan government of failing to rein in price hike.
Senator Maula Bux Chandio, irrigation minister Jam Khan Shoro, MNA Shagufta Jumani and Sharjeel Inam Memon, who led the protests, said that price hike had broken the back of poor people. Their protest was a referendum against Imran government, they said and advised the prime minister to resign honourably before it was too late.
PPP organised similar protests in Tando Allahyar, Tando Mohammad Khan, Matiari and Hala.
THATTA: Workers of PPP took to the streets in Thatta and Sujawal in response to the party chairman’s call for protest against price hike and federal government ‘discriminatory’ policies towards Sindh.
In Thatta, MPAs Riaz Hussain Shah Sheerazi and Jam Awais Gohram, former Senator Sasui Palijo and others led a big rally while in Sujawal, the workers were led by MPA Ali Hassan Zardari, MNA Ayaz Shah Sheerazi, deputy speaker Sindh Assembly Rehana Laghari and others.
The leaders at Thatta and Sujawal gatherings said that irrational economic policies of Imran government had ruined the country and pushed it to the brink of disaster. There was no option left but to oust his government, they said.
MIRPURKHAS: PPP workers led by lawmakers held a big demonstration outside local press club in protest against federal government’s discriminatory policies, price hike and unemployment.
MNAs Mir Munawar Ali Talpur and Shamim Aara Panhwar, former MNA Pir Aftab Hussain Shah Jilani, MPAs Hari Ram Kishori Lal, Syed Zulfikar Ali Shah and Mir Tarique Talpur held the federal government responsible for the growing price hike and said the government had miserably failed to rein in growing inflation.
They said that Imran government had devastated the economy. As a result, prices of essential food commodities had skyrocketed while thousands of employees had been sacked from their jobs and poverty had doubled.
MITHI: PPP enforced complete shutdown strike in Mithi and staged a demonstration at Sadiq Fakir Chowk in protest against what they called ill-conceived policies of Imran government.
MNA Dr Mahesh Kumar Malani, Senator Krishna Kumari, MPAs Qasim Siraj Soomro and Fakeer Sher Mohammad Bilalani and others, who led the protest, said that PPP had made the decision to take to the streets as a last resort after PTI rulers pushed the country towards economic chaos.
BADIN: PPP workers led by provincial minister Mohammad Ismail Rahu held a rally at Aiwan-i-Sahafat to protest growing inflation and joblessness.
The minister and other leaders slammed the PTI rulers for unbearable price hike and said that the incompetent government lacked capacity to bring inflation under control.
DADU: PPP workers staged a rally against price hike in response to the party’s call for protest against price hike and federal government’s policies.
MNA Rafiq Ahmed Jamali and Barrister Pir Mujeebul Haq, who led separate protests, said that people were committing suicide due to economic crisis, which was aggravating by each passing day thanks to flawed policies.
Similar rallies were held in Mehar, Khairpur Nathan Shah, Sehwan, Kotri and Jamshoro towns.
Published in Dawn, October 30th, 2021