ISLAMABAD: Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal has said that the province of Sindh is not a place for humans to live with decency.

Addressing a press conference at the National Press Club on Thursday, he said the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) had been in power in Sindh for the last 13 years, but “the corrupt and biased provincial government is sowing the seeds of discord that may turn the people of Karachi and other urban areas of Sindh into terrorists out of frustration”.

Mr Kamal said the Sindh government had received Rs10.24 trillion through the NFC [National Finance Commission] during PPP’s rule of 13 years, but children were dying because of dog bites, AIDS and malnutrition, while more than seven million children were out of schools.

He showed some documents claiming that there were thousands of ghost schools and millions of ghost teachers in the province only to consume the gigantic education budget. Because of the worst governance and biased attitude of the provincial government, hopelessness and desperation had been at its peak in Karachi, he added.

Seeks intervention from federal government, establishment and judiciary

The PSP chief said recently five qualified youths had committed suicide in Karachi. He feared that a small percentage of devastated, deprived, jobless youths of Karachi could go stray and fall into the wrong hands and take up arms and then “the same PPP will ask the federation and establishment to start operation against the ‘terrorists’”.

He said nobody was stopping the PPP from creating tomorrow’s terrorists and it was trying to create “more Altaf Hussains because the bloodshed suited the ethnic politics of PPP”.

Mr Kamal urged the federal government, establishment and judiciary to pay attention to the brewing situation.

He said the PPP government by amending the local government law had not only removed powers of the Election Commission to create its own election commission but also blatantly violated the Constitution of Pakistan.

“The clear motive of the PPP is to steal the mandate of the people of Karachi and urban areas of Sindh,” he added.

The PSP chief said the Sindh government had taken back all the major and important departments, including education and health, from the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation.

Published in Dawn, January 7th, 2022