HYDERABAD, Nov 15: The government should resign for failing to pull the country out of crisis, demanded Chief of Sindh National Front (SNF) Sardar Mumtaz Ali Khan Bhutto.
Addressing a press conference at the Circuit House on Saturday, he lauded the Sindh’s working class of forcing the government in retreating from the privatisation of the Qadirpur gas field. This determination of people would help them in countering the excesses they had been enduring since the inception of Pakistan, he said.
Condemning the recent US drone attack on Pakistani soil which claimed 14 innocent lives, the SNF chief said that thes attacks rose sharply ever since the installation of the present government.
He said that the country was suffering seriously from leadership crisis as its proof was the begging of money even from countries like Saudi Arabia and China. “This leadership has no credibility, prudence and ability to convince outside world to support us”, he said. Resultantly, he said, we are compelled to seek loan from the IMF which would lead to destruction.
He rapped the government on its failure to deal with internal and external issues. “Therefore I urge this government to show loyalty with this country and tender resignation. Fresh elections should be held otherwise Pakistan could not avoid destruction”, Bhutto said.
He described the announcement of Diamer-Bhasha Dam as a mere joke with the people. He said that Gen Pervez kept beating the drum of building Kalabagh and Bhasha Dam and left. Now, he said, this government had started from where he left just to divert the attention of people from actual crisis.
“In a country where a mother has to offer her kids for sale and people don’t have access to two square meals a day, will these people build a project costing billions of rupees, in dreams?”, he questioned. He strongly opposed any dam upstream Indus on the ground there were no water flows in river Indus.
He came hard on Prime Minister for not fulfilling his promises like abolition of FCR, death penalty and restoration of judges and introduction of question hour for Prime Minister. He said that while death penalty was not abolished despite announcement, around half a dozen people were hanged.
“This lot in fact doesn’t have people who could even have better understanding of the situation let alone handling the crisis”, Bhutto said. He attributed present success of PPP to sympathy vote that was given to it in the wake of assassination of Benazir Bhutto but still its leaders were busy in their orgies, loot and plunder. ‘They haven’t been able to lodge FIR of their leader’s murder”, he said.
He charged that the government didn’t scrap 17th Amendment as promised and didn’t reinstate judges. In such situation, he said, when civilian governments fails, dictatorship finds its way into the country. He said that no one had predicted revolutions in Cuba or China and government’s decision on Qadirpur gas field was just a reflection of revolution.