HYDERABAD: Qaumi Awami Tehreek president Ayaz Latif Palijo has said that Pakistan Peoples Party’s Sindh government is selling away the province’s pricey lands to investors, private companies, corporate sector and illegal immigrants at throwaway prices to mint more money.

He said in a statement issued here on Saturday that “Zardari mafia” was playing with future generations of Sindh by depriving them of their rightful properties. Still, people elected these traitors and looters repeatedly, he said.

He said that it seemed after having committed all kinds of corruption PPP government had now set its sights on state land. Right from Karachi to Kohistan, land in coastal areas and along both sides of highways in big cities had been given to outsiders and builder mafia. Indigenous communities would be displaced and people from other provinces would be settled in their place, he said.

He regretted that many writers and civil society representatives defended the corrupt rulers and officers while judiciary remained irrelevant and silent over the injustices being committed with complete impunity.

He said that the pro-people forces, who raised their voice against the injustices, were opposed and ridiculed on different pretexts by agents of the corrupt mafia.

He said that on the one hand people were unable to have even two square meals a day due to back-breaking price hike and on the other the poor man’s children did not have access to education, health facilities were nonexistent and agriculture sector was destroyed.

He said that Sindh’s people should not remain irrelevant to the issues linked to their very survival and continue to raise voice against the anti-people and anti-Sindh policies.

Published in Dawn, January 29th, 2023