HYDERABAD, Oct 28: A larger number of activists of the Pakistan People’s Party-SB and its student wing staged a demonstration and observed token hunger strike outside the press club here on Tuesday. They were protesting against the proposed privatisation of Qadirpur Gas field, lawlessness, price hike, unemployment and delay in dispensation of justice in Mir Murtaza Bhutto murder case.
Speaking on the occasion, Piral Majeedano, Syed Imran Shah and other PPP-SB leaders criticised the government for providing no relief to the people. They said that the masses were taking to the streets as lawlessness, price hike, unemployment, hunger and poverty had crossed limits. They said that while the people were starving, the rulers were not prepared to give up luxuries.
They alleged that Qadirpur gas field was being privatised to earn commission and vowed not to allow the sale of the gas field.
They criticised inordinate delay in dispensation of justice in Mir Murtaza Bhutto murder case.
STP: The Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party chairman Dr Qadir Magsi has strongly reacted to what he termed Sindh chief minister’s indifference to and ignorance of fundamental issues of the province.
Mr Magsi said in a press statement that the chief minister was unaware of the fact that Indus River’s water was being stolen and one province was constructing a controversial canal on the river. He alleged that the chief minister was least interested in the constitution of Council of Common Interest (CCI) because he did not see any controversial issue.
He pointed out that work was going on at a hectic pace on the construction of Greater Thal Canal and on its completion more than two million acres of Sindh’s land would become barren still, the chief minister did not know.
He reminded the chief minister that people under the banner of Anti-Greater Thal Canal Action Committee of which the CM was a convenor then, had struggled for three years against the construction of this canal and Bhasha Dam.
He wondered why the PPP had changed its stance on the Greater Thal Canal after coming into power. Due to injudicious distribution of water and flow of water into Chashma—Jehlum and Taunsa—Panjnad link canals, Sindh was suffering billions of rupees losses.
He urged Syed Qaim Ali Shah to give priority to Sindh as he was its elected chief minister.